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...season until the meat of the Ivy League schedule comes in late September and early October. The excitement that surrounds the match—and the possibly unprecedented number of people who may come out to watch the highly touted Blue Devils—will be a key factor in the game. Along with keeping its offensive momentum from the first five games going, the Crimson will have to control and harness the anticipation and thrill of playing Duke on Ohiri field in order to pull off the stunning upset. Kerr said that the team’s goal...
When it comes to anticipating Middle East crises, the oil futures market plays the canary in the coalmine. And the political risk factor that has done most to propel oil prices to record highs over the past six months has been the prospect of war between the United States and Iran. It's not hard to see why: Iran is the fourth-largest supplier in an already tight world market, and its threat to respond to any attack by closing the Straits of Hormuz - the maritime bottleneck through which oil from Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States must pass - could...
...laws aren’t new,” said University Health Services (UHS) Director David S. Rosenthal ’59. But, he added, an outbreak of measles at the John Hancock Tower in Boston this summer was one factor behind the ramped-up immunization efforts...
Leverett Professor of Physics Gerald Gabrielse and his team recently advanced one of the major theories in phsyics by measuring the magnetic moment (G-factor) of an electron to a precision an order of magnitude higher than previous measurements, confirming that an electron has no internal structure and is, indeed, a fundamental particle...
...measure of the G-factor can be plugged into a power series to calculate the binding energy of atoms, revealing that the binding energy is actually a millionth of a percent weaker than previously thought...