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...took giant steps toward bringing the universe's lost unity out of hiding. In 1964, Peter Higgs, a shy scientist in Edinburgh, added his name to that list by coming up with an ingenious theory that gave scientists the tools to explain how two classes of particles, which now appear to be different, were once one and the same. His theory proposes the existence of a single particle responsible for imparting mass to all things - a speck so precious it has come to be known as the "God particle." The scientific term for it is the Higgs boson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Higgs Boson: A Ghost in the Machine | 4/9/2008 | See Source »

Some sports look grueling - ice hockey, soccer, basketball, for example, with their yards of stops and starts, feints and runs. Others, like gymnastics, appear effortless and soaring. But in the first national study of gymnastics injuries, conducted by researchers at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, 16 years of data show that there is nothing easy at all about gymnastics, and that injuries from the sport are as common as those in soccer, basketball and ice hockey - making gymnastics among the most dangerous sports for girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making Gymnastics Safer for Kids | 4/8/2008 | See Source »

...same elegantly designed room. In the earlier setting, the story centers on the dialogue of the tutor Septimus Hodge (Jonah C. Priour ’09) and his pupil Thomasina Coverly (Sara L. Wright ’09). Several extramarital affairs, one Romanticism-satirizing landscape remodeling, and the fleeting appearance of Lord Byron at the manor comprise the basic machinations of this plot. The modern setting focuses on Hannah Jarvis (Olivia A. Benowitz ’09) and Bernard Nightingale (Chris J. Carothers ’11), bickering academics studying the events of 1809 and looking to make big discoveries...

Author: By Davis S. Wallace, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Stoppard's 'Arcadia' Works | 4/8/2008 | See Source »

...realities of urban life in Baltimore. “I began to realize the fraud of the drug war,” Simon said, speaking from his experience as a journalist. “The drug war had become increasingly untenable on many sides as policy and began to appear immoral.”Simon nevertheless admitted that, while his years of work for the Baltimore Sun made him a witness to the inner-city drug trade, his rendition of the story of Baltimore was imperfect. “I’m not under the illusion that the show...

Author: By Alec E Jones, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'The Wire' Conducts Discussion | 4/8/2008 | See Source »

...keep it simple and keep the ball moving.”So explains the Harvard women’s soccer team’s Lizzy Nichols, in her usual uncomplicated manner, when asked to describe her style of play. Yet her inclusion in the sports pages, it would appear, bucks a general trend.As aesthetically attractive as soccer is as a spectacle, one of the reasons for its enduring appeal is its simplicity. Yet despite this, players encapsulating this approach are the ones often overlooked by the majority of people. Read the soccer coverage in newspapers—the emphasis tends...

Author: By Allen J. Padua, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Midfielder Takes Game To Next Level | 4/8/2008 | See Source »

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