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...People have this picture of a physicist as being cold and distant. But Falk is a terrific communicator and he’s great at building relationships,” said Jonathan A. Bagger, an associate professor who taught Falk and was later his colleague at Johns Hopkins. “Those abilities will only carry and multiply...
...once they've got their bearings, many Iraqis placed elsewhere in the country make a beeline for Detroit. Some, like the Aljanabys, hook up with relatives: in a family-oriented culture, they can depend on the kindness of distant cousins for a roof over their head, food and help in finding jobs. Since those relatives are often themselves former refugees, they empathize with the newcomers...
Raptorex's mouth, by contrast, was most likely a primary weapon - like that of its distant descendant Tyrannosaurus. But that alone wasn't enough of an advantage to let it evolve into the predator that would ultimately dominate North America and Asia. That probably didn't happen until larger predatory dinosaurs went extinct for other reasons, say the scientists, allowing Raptorex-like creatures to begin growing. Once they started to get into the league of the big predators, though, where speed and bone-crushing jaw strength would let them range farther and crunch the bones of the biggest prey, there...
...enmeshed in technology is the fact that most of us lack actual lives. All that time that we spend tweeting our thoughts and emotions to our next of kin, we could be writing the great American novel, starting a business, or just living. Maybe on the not-so-distant morning when I wake up and realize I have don’t have a clue how to zinf, it’ll be because I’m doing something more important...
...current dire straits and stunt our growth prospects. HMC should instead look to manage money mindfully, attaining good enough returns given the university’s particular situation. This is our best hope to seeing the endowment recover and making the budget cuts of the past year a distant memory...