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...films with gruesome outtakes of the injuries he suffered doing his stunts.) For all the safety precautions taken, the two stars still have to give every fiber of their disciplined, battered bodies to get through the kung-fu scenes. It's what made them action stars to begin with: the willingness to display their physical gifts while undergoing something like physical torture. In a phrase, macho masochism...
...begin operation until this summer, but when Higgs, 78, made his first visit there on April 5, it was, in the nomenclature of particle physics, "an event." Grown men and women with Ph.D.s swarmed Higgs for autographs, but he appeared far more taken by the experimental equipment he hoped would find the Higgs boson and thus prove his theory. A particle detector called ATLAS, for instance, is 150 ft (46 m) long, 82 ft (25 m) high, weighs 7,000 tons and is connected to enough cable and wiring to wrap around the earth nearly seven times. "The sheer scale...
...Second, the Crimson bats have to get hot. This may seem unlikely, since virtually all of Harvard hitters are mired in slumps, but the beauty of baseball is that slumps end as often as they begin, and if they all end at the same time for the Crimson, we’re suddenly dealing with a lineup that can do some real damage. Freshmen Dillon O’Neill and Sean O’Hara seem to be picking it up, and if Vance and Stack-Babich can heal their wounds, they both bring authority to the middle...
Immediately after banging her gavel to begin yesterday’s Faculty meeting, University President Drew G. Faust opened with a few words, followed by a moment of silence in honor of former Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles who passed away last week.“It would be impossible at this moment, in this room not to be thinking about Jeremy,” she said. “We will have times and occasions to speak about Jeremy in the days and weeks to come, but today I want to ask you for silence, for silence...
...came to Dublin in 1999. At that time, there was peaceful co-existence between Shi'ites and Sunnis. He says one could even crack Shi'ite-Sunni jokes in mixed company. That is no longer true. "They cannot handle it anymore," he says of Sunnis. He saw relations begin to deteriorate in Dublin as Shi'ites gained power in Baghdad, and they grew worse as the sectarian conflict in Iraq became more violent...