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...From Sue Grafton’s FM is for Fifteen Murders: It was a dark rainy night as I entered the courtyard of Lowell House, a dormitory by the Charles River. I was looking for a girl. I found her—sprawled across some sort of magazine printed on newsprint. She was dead. Dead. And judging by the way the blood was creeping across the pages of the (most amusing) broadsheet, her fifteen minutes had run out very recently indeed...
...increased power of the GMT’s mirrors will allow scientists to see further into space, gathering more information on extra-solar planet composition, the formation of galaxies, black holes and stars, as well as on newer astronomical topics like theories of dark energy...
...that the expansion of the universe, which people have known about since 1929, has been speeding up, not slowing down due to gravity as everyone thought,” said Clowes Professor of Science Robert P. Kirshner ’70. “To figure out what this dark energy is, we need to go more precisely and further into the past...
Figuring out what the dark energy means could call into question a number of the fundamental tenets of physics, Kirshner said...
...with restricting access is that it might deflect attention away from more reasonable measures to improve house security. Instead of policies that leave students out in the cold, more security guards could be hired or allocated to watch over houses during the night. All too often security offices are dark and no one is watching out for undesirables, thieves or worse. Too little supervision, not too much student access is the greater house security risk...