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Their effort is one of several recent initiatives to counter Harvard’s approximate $4 million investment in PetroChina...
...probably looks exactly like it did during the Carter Administration. Under the harsh glow of fluorescent lights, throw-backs like an old-school beer price guide and a retro Coca-Cola refrigerator scatter the floor. Newspaper clippings yellowed with age and old photos line the wall behind the counter...
...nice before. Then I found that that’s not the situation, so I have to change my strategy,” he says. He now keeps a stack of IDs he has confiscated—including a fake Harvard ID—behind his counter...
Louie’s has been empty on recent evenings, save for the man behind the counter. Some students are still loyal to Chen. He’s already collected 400 signatures for his petition from customers who hope that being able to sell on Sunday will save his business. He feels the same...
...Posner’s credit, Catastrophe does anticipate Gabrielse’s counter-argument. Posner writes that “a cosmic ray hitting a fixed target such as the moon will tend to scatter the nuclei that it hits, making it less likely that they will clump”—and thus produce strange matter—“than if the collision were head on,” as it would be inside RHIC. So, the fact that the moon has existed for 4.5 billion years without condensing into a tiny ball does not necessarily...