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...missions reached a major milestone. On Mars, the Opportunity rover, which has been tooling across the landscape for more than 10 times its originally designed lifetime of 90 days, began taking close-ups from the edge of Victoria Crater, blasted by an ancient impact. Opportunity may soon descend into this hole to study layers of exposed Martian rock for clues to the planet's past...
...fair, the dreariness of Ec1010b was not entirely Fuchs-Schundeln’s fault. She probably wanted to cover the material in the assigned text, Mankiw’s Macroeconomics. The book is clear, but not geared for stimulating lectures. Most topics quickly descend into explaining the minutiae of graphs that artificially prove a theory. Little will probably change as Paola Giuliano of the International Monetary Fund takes over the course this year...
Head of the Charles: 1. Weekend in October devoted to a massive crew race. 2. When college and prep-school students descend on Cambridge to get drunk. 3. When your roommates will invite total strangers to drink, party, and pass out in your room. 4. A good weekend (October 21-22, this year) to skip town...
...this sounds like he-said, she-said for the paleoanthropological crowd, you're not far off. The two sides quickly descend from debating the finer points of human fossils to slagging off on each other's ethics. Brown has accused Teuku Jacob - the lead author of the PNAS paper and one of Indonesia's most venerable anthropologists - of removing the fossils from their legal depository and damaging them while attempting to make a copy. Jacob has denied the charges in the past, and Thorne takes umbrage at the accusations. "This is a very senior academic," he says of Jacob. "This...
...truth, there is no such thing as a growth industry,” he wrote. “Industries that assume themselves to be riding some automatic growth escalator invariably descend into stagnation...