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After the giant laser is dedicated in a ceremony at Livermore this week, scientists will employ its intense beam of light in an attempt to weld the nuclei of hydrogen atoms, releasing bursts of energy at temperatures exceeding those at the center of the sun. Should they succeed in harnessing nuclear fusion, they could point the way toward a limitless supply of cheap, clean power. "Once we crack the problem of fusion," says John Emmett, associate director for lasers at Livermore, "we have an assured source of energy for as long as you want to think about it. It will...
Shattuck said the opposition of Stafford and the others was "crucial" in the attempt to prevent the cap from being included in the final budget...
EXPERTS AGREE that the plethora of criticism is indicative of a conservative trend in American culture, an attempt to recover from what Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education Steven Ozment called "the hangover from the '60s," when traditional requirements were generally abandoned under student and faculty pressure. Along with a yen for argyle sweaters and fervent anti-communism. observers have demonstrated a desire for a return to strict standards in higher education. But not everyone thinks that the situation should be presented in such crisis terms...
Sabremetrics combines the acronym for the Society for American Baseball Research, "SABRE," with "metrics," the study of numbers. Moreover, sabremetrics is the use of statistical analysis to shed additional light on baseball in an attempt better to comprehend the principles that guide the game...
...light of these strenuous costs, it is not surprising that the most recent attempt to create a polo club at Harvard folded because of financial difficulties. The team incurred many debts which the university was forced to pay when the club failed, said Farman-Farma...