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COMMANDER JEFFREY EGGERS, a top adviser to General Stanley McChrystal, on the reluctance of U.S. and NATO commanders to eradicate opium crops in Marjah; the stance is part of an effort to win over Afghans residing in former Taliban territory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 4/5/2010 | See Source »

Walsh was also pleased with his team’s effort against one of the league’s best pitchers, Princeton junior David Palms, who has given the Crimson trouble in the past with his low-to-mid-90’s fastball and slider...

Author: By Evan J. Zepfel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Splits With Princeton in Opener | 4/5/2010 | See Source »

...Harvard doctors who have flown to the island to help the relief effort have paid for their own flights, Bollettino said...

Author: By Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HHI Seeks More Haiti Donations | 4/5/2010 | See Source »

...goal of modern theoretical physics is to reveal the universe's lost elegance. A major breakthrough in that effort came in 1964, when Peter Higgs, a shy British scientist in Edinburgh, introduced a theory that could explain how particles that carry two of the four forces - those that carry the electromagnetic force, and those that carry the weak force - came to have different masses as the universe cooled (in the moment after the Big Bang, of course, nothing had mass, existing instead in a sort of naked, ethereal beauty). Extrapolating from Higgs' theory, scientists were able to explain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the Collider Matters: In Search of the 'God Particle' | 4/3/2010 | See Source »

...weeks, these machines—which provide cold water, room-temp water, and seltzer—have stopped functioning to continuously dispense your H2O. Previously, you could leave a glass under the running machine, fulfill another task, and then return to find your glass filled with no manual effort involved...

Author: By Punit N. Shah, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Drawing Water: Mild Effort Now Required | 4/3/2010 | See Source »

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