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...Then, things went bad. On the second day of competition, the weather became a factor with the temperature dropping about 10 degrees and blustery winds sweeping the water?s surface like a giant broom. World record holder Brendan Hansen settled for silver in the 100m breast stroke, after touching the wall 0.17 seconds behind Japan?s Kosuke Kitajima. Three-time Olympian Jenny Thompson failed to medal in the 100 butterfly, and to close the disappointing night, the U.S. men earned a bronze in the 4x100m freestyle relay, not bad until you consider it?s their worse finish in that event...
...Jonathan S. Chavez ’05, chair of the Institute of Politics (IOP) student survey committee, also pointed to expectations as a factor that could have played into the poll results...
Present electronic coding systems rely on large numbers that are extremely difficult to factor and therefore impossible to hack using present technology...
Once the weak light impulses reached their destination, the sender and receiver would compare elements of their decoded keys to make sure they were identical, Myers said. He said a tenet of quantum physics would make this comparison the essential factor that would make the quantum code key a successful encoding system...
...potential factor cited by students that may cause them to turn away from Social Analysis 78 is that they have already taken the always highly enrolled Social Analysis 10, “Principles of Economics,” and may not want to take the class as an elective...