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...bent leads him to shun disputes such as those waged by liberal Keynesians and conservative monetarists. "I do not consider myself involved in economic policy in any way," he says. Nevertheless, his work does have some practical applications in the hands of other economists. According to Stanford Economist Kenneth Arrow, a 1972 Nobel winner who has worked closely with Debreu, equilibrium theory is used by private forecasters and government planners to predict such things as the impact of a tax change on various industries...
Davis has sent samples of the zombie potion to laboratories in Europe and the U.S., where in one experiment it induced a trancelike state in rats. Such research in the past led to the discovery of curare, an arrow poison from the Amazon now used to paralyze muscles during surgery. Tetrodotoxin may also one day find its place in the medical armamentarium. "People who have lived in the tropics for centuries have learned things about plants and animals that we have not fathomed," says Richard Evan Schultes, head of Harvard's renowned Botanical Museum. "We must not leave...
...unemployed, with the equivalent of a ninth-grade education and a history of emotional and mental problems. Many wear tattoos made from colored toothbrushes melted down in prison. Some of the designs, hidden in the webbing between the thumb and forefinger, are emblems of criminal specialties: Madre and an arrow for murder, a star under three vertical bars for kidnaping...
...Arrow (Bow St.): It's an unwritten rule in the Square that Harvard students shouldn't include the Bow and Arrow (a.k.a. Father's) in their plans for six days of the seek, but rather make up for their weekly abstinence on the seventh While leaving the other days for the Cantabrigian locals, the Wednesday night happy hour deal of $2.25 per pitcher of Knickerbocker beer is too good to keep people away from this cavernous establishment. If you want to break new ground however, pitchers go for $3.95 other days...
Because beam weapons are largely unaffected by the tug of gravity, they could be aimed straighter than the proverbial arrow. In space, laser beams would have almost infinite range, as NASA showed when it bounced laser light off small mirrors left behind by the Apollo astronauts on the moon. (At lower altitudes, laser beams, like any light, are readily diffused by clouds and even fog.) Charged particles, on the other hand, would be influenced by the effects of the earth's magnetic field. But researchers are working on machines that shoot particles with no electrical charge, like simple hydrogen...