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...time," says lead researcher Linda Perry of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Which of course raises the question: Just how spicy did they like it? In Scoville Heat Units-a measure of capsaicinoids, the chemicals that give food "heat"-the picante peppers of prehistoric Peru pale in comparison with today's hottest chilies...
...SHUs New Mexico State University's Chile Pepper Institute last week certified the Bhut Jolokia, or "ghost chili," from India as the hottest ever tested. By comparison, most pepper sprays come in at 2 to 5 million SHUs...
...spaceship" that seats six and has rocket motors in the trunk. It harks back to a design developed by the Soviets for space-shuttle runs but adds an innovation: the same hybrid motor used by SpaceShipOne to win the X Prize in 2004--laughing gas shot through rubber. In comparison, the spaceship being developed in great secrecy by Bezos' Blue Origin looks like a lopped-off nose cone. The three-seater, fueled by hydrogen peroxide (yup, the common household disinfectant, though in a highly purified form, with a touch of kerosene) appears based on an old Delta Clipper design done...
...don’t agree with what a person says at all. But if they get that from my poem, then maybe I should think about what I want it to convey.”PRIDE AND PREJUDICEThe difficulties faced by students regarding creative writing workshops pales in comparison with the challenge of achieving the elusive holy grail of Harvard creative writing: the creative thesis. Spots are even harder to get because instructors can only advise two or three theses. Only English concentrators with a GPA of 3.4 or higher are allowed to apply, and generally those who have taken...
...next fall through its Bing Overseas Studies Program. Nearly 400 students (out of about 10,300 total) studied abroad last fall at George Washington University. With 122 undergrads out of about 6,700 that experienced an international education this past fall, Harvard’s figures seem small in comparison...