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...that was near the beginning of Bok's 20-year term. By the end of his tenure, many considered the former president a distant bureaucrat, The Crimson reported in 1992. In contrast, newcomer Rudenstine, upon his arrival, immediately began to foster the image of a down-to-earth populist...
...space telescope managed to spot Cepheids in M100, a particularly distant galaxy in the Virgo cluster, which enabled the Hubble scientists to estimate how far the cluster is from earth. According to their report in the current Nature, M100 is 56 million light-years away, and the Hubble constant is 80, leading to the conclusion that the universe is at most 12 billion years old. The uncertainty arises because it's unknown how tightly the universe is packed with matter; the gravity from a high density would have slowed the universe's expansion considerably by now, meaning that it could...
Good to know that Harvard's priorities follow today's NCAA stance: the score and the media come first, the fan always seemingly a distant second...
Normally, the body tightly regulates the stimulation and inhibition of new blood vessels. Tumors, however, produce inducers to stimulate the creation of blood vessels near the tumor, and inhibitors which prevent the creation of vessels in distant parts of the body, said Bouck...
...psychiatrist is given some good lines. His response to John's description of the unattainable Lisa provokes a hilariously digressive musing on a bikini-clad would-be Lolita form his distant past. But Sachs' timing is sometimes off, robbing the lines of their comic potential...