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...minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder sciences at the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, used sophisticated photographic equipment to observe what really happens inside the glass. The bubbles consist of carbon dioxide dissolved in the liquid during the méthode champenoise fermentation process. Scientists have long known that these CO2 molecules need a niche of some sort to form bubbles; in a perfectly smooth glass, the molecules would evaporate singly and invisibly. Conventional wisdom is that tiny pits...
...look at the EEGs of people in REM sleep, you see a pattern that shows lots of brain activity--and if you wake them up during it, they will tell you that they have just been dreaming. Any dreams in non-REM sleep usually consist of no more than a simple image or two. But despite all the mythology that surrounds dream imagery, scientists who have searched for the hidden purpose in dreams haven't had much luck. The consensus among sleep researchers today is that dreams are nothing more than random recycling of bits and pieces of the previous...
Beth Brainard, spokeswoman for the Harvard College Library, which runs Lamont Library—site of the other government depository on campus—says that members of the public can show a photo ID and sign in at the door; the visitors generally consist of academics from other institutions. While Brainard stresses that for privacy reasons the library does not keep a count of who uses the library, she observes that in general, a small percentage of the library’s users, approximately 10 percent, come from outside Harvard...
...States, formed in October 2002, consist of three Harvard students: Chris Snyder ’04 on guitar and vocals, Previn Warren ’04 on bass guitar and Ian Mackenzie ’04 on drums. Leaving behind their Crimson-stained roots, the trio have since expanded beyond the campus circuit to the bright lights of New York. Stroll recently replaced Mackenzie on drums, who left the band to pursue a career as a teacher...
...more policies aimed at promoting flexibility between work and home - day-care centers, early schooling, flex time - but also a doubling of immigration rates and higher participation in the labor market for older people and women." But unless it becomes more palatable, affordable and even fashionable for families to consist of two or more children again, Europe risks becoming an Old World in the worst sense of the term...