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...Depending on your hometown, March may be a time when winter breaks, flowers burst into bloom, and trees come alive with the songs of birds. This is not the case at Harvard...

Author: By Samuel C. Scott, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Year Ahead: Rashes, Refreshments, and Naked Runs | 8/28/2006 | See Source »

...Somehow, the commuter jet and its 50 occupants ended up on Runway 26 instead, a cracked surface meant for small planes that was much too short for the twin-engine jet. The pilots tried to lift off, but the plane clipped trees, then quickly crashed in a field and burst into flames, killing everyone aboard but a critically injured co-pilot who was pulled from the cracked cockpit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is the Runway Part of the Problem? | 8/28/2006 | See Source »

About 13.7 billion years ago, the universe burst into existence, creating everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the Stars Were Born | 8/27/2006 | See Source »

...DARK AGES BEGIN When the cosmos was about 400,000 years old, it had cooled to about the temperature of the surface of the sun, allowing subatomic particles to combine for the first time into atoms. The last burst of light from the Big Bang shone forth at that time; it is still detectable today in the form of a faint whisper of microwaves streaming from all directions in space. The discovery of those microwaves in 1964 confirmed the existence of the Big Bang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the Stars Were Born | 8/27/2006 | See Source »

...DARK MATTER Accounting for a bigger portion of matter than ordinary atoms, dark-matter particles were spread unevenly through the cosmos; areas of higher concentration drew in hydrogen and helium gas, gradually forming the first stars dense enough to burst into thermonuclear flame 3 FIRST STARS The earliest stars were massive, weighing in at 20 to more than 100 times the mass of the sun. The crushing pressures at their cores made them burn through their nuclear fuel in only a million years or so and caused them to spew radiation so intense that it kept other stars from forming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the Stars Were Born | 8/27/2006 | See Source »

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