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...solar system unique in the universe? This question has long driven astronomers to search for planets beyond our sun's. Last week three Canadian astronomers presented the first hard evidence that at least one planet, probably larger than Jupiter, may orbit around Epsilon Eridani, a nearby star favored by planet hunters...
Such planets, if they exist, are too small and dark to be detected directly. For six years the Canadians have monitored 16 stars from an observatory on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, looking for the distinctive wobbling motion caused by the gravitational pull of nearby orbiting bodies. Epsilon Eridani, among several others, shows the telltale wobbles...
...students said they were generally not surprised by the results, even Harvard's absence. "For one thing," commented Anthony Fortunato of theSigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, "we don't wearcoat and tie to our parties. At a party atWellesley last year I heard some Harvard studentssay they were going to party at MIT because theirown school was boring...
...back for dances. Initiation ceremonies, long scorned as juvenile (and now largely cleansed of the rough stuff), are once again emotional experiences, with pledges of fealty by candlelight. On some campuses, Hell Week has been renamed Inspiration Week. Senior Kyle Williamson of the University of Colorado's Sigma Phi Epsilon house, which prides itself a membership of jocks and other square-shouldered types, admits that "a lot of guys cry." Buckley Gillock of Virginia speaks for generations of Greeks when he describes why he cares so deeply about being a Kappa Alpha: "It's meant making the best friends...
...Blob", it is said in East Cambridge, required four years of planning by MIT's Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity...