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...bulletin from the Intercontinental Radio News. At twenty minutes before eight, Central Time, Professor Farrell of the Mount Jennings Observatory, Chicago, Illinois, reports observing several explosions of incandescent gas, occurring at regular intervals on the planet Mars. The spectroscope indicates the gas to be hydrogen and moving towards the Earth with enormous velocity...
Silence. Dead silence. This is bad. What's going on? Have Martians invaded Earth? Can't be, right? But it's on the radio, and the radio doesn't lie. Is that smoke I smell? Why is old lady Johnson screaming next door? Holy hell...
Similar scenes were repeated all over the East Coast. Listeners poured into the streets. Some headed to church. Others headed to spend their last hours on Earth with family. Wet towels served as makeshift gas masks to protect against the poison gas the radio said was headed outward from New Jersey. Many were convinced it was the end of the world...
There are more Chinese and Indians than anyone else on earth, but they know astonishingly little of each other. Though diasporas from both nations have swept the world, it wasn't until the past 20 years that Indians and Chinese began visiting each other in significant numbers. Among those crossing the Himalayas was New Delhi native Pallavi Aiyar, who became the Beijing correspondent of the Hindu...
...program that will pool the intellectual resources of doctoral students across the University to help solve two global crises. “Climate change and energy security—these are two of the greatest issues confronting the world,” said Daniel P. Schrag, professor of earth and planetary sciences and the program’s mastermind. “Harvard has a responsibility to train future leaders that are going to help solve this problem.” The consortium—the first of an array to come under the new Harvard Interdisciplinary Consortia?...