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...Einstein to string theory to her own work. And she suggests that new discoveries await in the not-so-distant future. At the same time, she recollects her own experiences as a theoretical physicist, enlivening her prose with references to afternoons spent at Toscanini’s (the MIT branch, not the Harvard Square location). Ultimately, Randall gives her bulky 500-plus page text a (forgive the pun) more human dimension...
Travia calls it the “social norms” marketing campaign—a branch of the national program of the same name (the National Social Norms Resource Center) that has been administered in universities across the country. This new effort in the battle to tame dangerous drinking habits is based on the idea that most college students overestimate how often, and how much, their peers actually drink. If students knew the facts, Travia says, they would feel less pressure to engage in risky behaviors...
...experts insist, require bigger ideas. Geologist Sherwood Gagliano has spent a lifetime trying to figure out how to save his sinking state, and he has come up with what he thinks is the only plan ambitious enough to match the size of the problem. His idea: to redirect a branch of the Mississippi through the heart of Terrebonne Parish, the most densely populated in the delta. Shipping lanes would remain routed through New Orleans, but much of the Mississippi would be diverted at Donaldsonville, 90 miles upriver from the city, so sediment-rich waters could revive the ancient riverbeds...
...Police sources in Britain declined to comment on the claims, as did Yusof Abdul Rahaman, the director of the special branch of Malaysia's police force. Sidney Jones, who heads the Southeast Asia office of the think tank International Crisis Group, says that it's critical to understand how "like-minded jihadis from other parts of the world" are forging ties with each other. Jones stresses the role played in such contact by Pakistan's Islamic schools, or madrasahs. Khan is said to have visited a madrasah in Pakistan less than a year...
...label “judicial activism” against the leader of the executive branch is a strange contortion of logic indeed (“An Unlikely ‘Activist Judge,’” editorial, Sept...