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Tipped off by one of the suspects’ friends, a heavily armed police SWAT team descended on their dingy Brooklyn apartment before dawn and caught Abu Maizar and 22-year-old Lafi Khalil sleeping. Both were shot and wounded when, according to police, they tried to trigger the bombs. One bomb was a nine-inch pipe packed with gunpowder, nails and 9mm bullets. The other was a four-pipe monstrosity that would have killed everyone within 25 feet if detonated in an enclosed space like a subway car....

Still, the effort boasts the support of some of the nation’s leading newspaper executives. James Batten, chairman of Knight-Ridder, Inc., recently told members of the Newspaper Association of America’s diversity committee, which he also chairs, that promoting diversity was one of NAA’s “absolute top priorities.” And as the group attempted earlier this month to assess its work, Batten observed that, despite all the sniping, progress had been made. just under one quarter of all entry-level professionals hired over the last year, he noted, were members of minority groups–the highest proportion that the annual employment survey of the American Society of Newspaper Editors has thus far recorded....

Among 478 institutions surveyed, nine in 10 restrict free speech in some capacity, accounting for 88 percent of all colleges across the U.S., according to the report, published Tuesday by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE). “FIRE rates schools as ‘red light,’ ‘yellow light,’ or ‘green light’ institutions based on how much speech protected by the First Amendment their policies restrict in a number of categories, including protest, online speech, harassment, and civility,” states the report, entitled “Spotlight on Speech Codes 2021: The State of Free Speech on Our Nation’s Campuses....

title: “9 Questions To Ask Yourself Before You Buy An Ev” ShowToc: true date: “2023-01-23” author: “John Burkhardt” Take a hard look at these 9 questions and use your answers to decide if buying an EV is right for you. Would You Prefer a Quieter Driving Experience? EVs are so silent that they must make warning sounds so pedestrians can hear them approaching. At any speed, there is no engine making a racket and no exhaust bellowing through the cabin....

Whether you are new to Linux customization or continue to be a seasoned user, you can’t oversee these nine icon packs to give your desktop environment a facelift. 1. Numix Circle Numix Circle is a spherical shape-based Linux icon pack created for Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, and their derivatives. Designed and developed by the Numix design collective, the icon pack uses a hardcoded-fixer script to generate application icons. The icon theme includes icons for Steam games for your system as well....

It is totally normal to be a little anxious about asking someone out. Everyone in the entire history of people asking other people out feels the exact same way you do right now. It may help to remind yourself that hearing “no” is preferable to that lingering feeling of “what could have been. ” Even if this doesn’t go the way you want it to, at least you can move on....

These symptoms may last for 2 weeks or more and they may stop and come back again. These are called “recurrent episodes. ” In this case, the symptoms are more than just a “bad day. ” They are severe changes in mood that affect the way someone functions socially or at their job. You may have stopped going to school or showing up for work. Similarly, these feelings might make you lose interest in some of your favorite hobbies or activities, like playing sports, doing crafts, or visiting with friends....

Capt. Jim Duering, of the Grand Island Police Department, said he had never seen a child “with this level of hostility and seriousness of offenses,” The Omaha World-Herald reported. Grand Island deputies said the boy’s spree started around 10:30 p.m. They responded to a complaint and warned the boy against riding his bike in the middle of the street. However, the situation quickly escalated and a local resident reported the child had hijacked a 2007 Honda Civic....

Tom Moore, with the help of a walking frame, is aiming to complete 100 laps of his backyard in Bedfordshire, England, by his 100th birthday at the end of April to raise funds for NHS Charities Together. He set up a fundraising page last week and initially aimed to raise $1,250. That target was hit in just 24 hours and a second target of $125,000 was also quickly reached....

The bizarre explosion occurred at roughly 5 a.m. at the Love’s Travel Stop near the town of Big Cabin, according to WFTV 9 News. The stop is about 56 miles northeast of Tulsa. The truck had pulled into the location after the driver said he began experiencing brake problems. According to firefighters that responded to the incident, these issues caused the tires to catch fire, which eventually spread to the highly flammable spray cans in the trailer....

Here are selected stories from throughout 2007: FEBRUARY 18 – The Washington Post exposes decrepit living conditions for wounded soldiers recovering in Building 18 at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center: MARCH 8 – A New York Times study finds vast inequities in how veterans receive disability checks based on location and type of service. MARCH 9 – President Bush forms the Dole-Shalala commission with a mandate to review the military health care system....

Messi 15/4 to be CL top scorer The 28-year-old’s strike at Camp Nou moved his tally for Barca to 450 goals, while he scored his 50th for his country with a penalty against Bolivia during last month’s international break. With another career landmark reached, we look at the best Opta stats from Messi’s 500 career goals. BETTER GOAL RATE THAN RONALDO Messi’s career is constantly compared to that of his Real Madrid rival Cristiano Ronaldo, with fans of both players debating who should be considered the world’s best....

FEDERAL JUDGE THOMAS PENFIELD JACKSON HAD some news for his packed courtroom–he had conducted an informal software demonstration. This got the attention of the litigants before him: the world’s most powerful government and the world’s most powerful software company. Specifically, the jurist had wanted to test a claim made earlier in the week by the software firm–which is of course Microsoft, run by gazillionaire Bill Gates and staffed by 20,000 overmotivated light-bulb-heads who aspire to Gates’s genius, drive and cunning....

India’s Hindu nationalists were wise to get their partying done quickly last week. The victory was fading almost as fast as the flowers wilted. With only a third of the seats in Parliament, Vajpayee’s new Bharatiya Janata Party government seemed destined to fall before May is out, setting a record for the shortest run in India’s history. “We will pull down the BJP government in no time,” said Vithal Gadgil, spokesman for the Congress party, which lost power in an epochal shift by India’s poor to parties representing narrow class interests....

The job has aged Menem visibly, no matter what he says. His approval ratings have plunged to record lows, from a dizzy 86 percent in 1989 to a dismal 28 percent recently. Scandals and policy revolts have compelled two of his senior ministers to clean out their desks in recent months. Many of his closest former allies have abandoned him. In the presidential election scheduled for Oct. 24, all three main candidates, including the nominee of Menem’s Justicialista party, are aggressively trying to distance themselves from the departing president’s image....

Before Prithvi Shaw, 14 Indian players have scored hundreds on debut. Out of these 14, for 8 players it was their first and last hundred. Again, none of these 8 players crossed the individual landmark of representing India in 25 Test matches. Two players from the current generation, Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan have scored more centuries after their debut hundreds. They are the two exceptional white ball cricketers who don’t find a place in the present Indian Test team....