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...Part of the problem is that there is no precise scientific definition of the word planet. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) is trying to hammer one out, but the decision is proving more difficult than anyone thought. An apparent consensus, reached just weeks ago, seems to have fallen apart. "The current state," admits Brian Marsden, director of the IAU's Minor Planet Center at Harvard, "is rather confusing...
...what went wrong? Two years ago, says Miller, he began to home in on oil and gas stocks. He had never liked them, knowing that oil prices had fallen in real terms over 150 years while demand had grown at a desultory pace?"a formula for a bad long-term investment." Still, after years of lackluster performance, the sector was cheap, so he drew up a list of buys, like Devon Energy, Apache and XTO Energy. But he never bought them. "I was preoccupied with other things," Miller admits. "When I got around to doing it, the prices had moved...
...team lead in goals with four—three of them of the game-deciding variety.On the other end of the field, Leech has been a brick wall as he has a 4-0-1 mark with three shutouts to his name. Meanwhile, his goals against average has fallen below 0.25 to make him the best keeper in the Ivies.“From top to bottom in their lineup they have solid players,” Craig said. “They are the team I think will take the title and they are probably the standard...
...English is usually shaky at best, and totally non-existent at worst. When you walk into your section and feel a seismic wave of relief that practically knocks you to the floor when a TF speaks a clear and coherent sentence in English, you know your expectations have fallen unreasonably low for what your $40,000/year is supposedly buying. Meanwhile, the humanities TF can usually speak English, but uses what verbal abilities they possess mostly to muse such pearls of wisdom as, “Great idea,” “Wow, that’s an excellent...
...universities hit by Hurricane Rita will resume classes in the next two weeks, while universities hit by Hurricane Katrina, including Tulane and Loyola, will stay closed until next semester. At Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, fallen trees have been cleared away but restoration teams are still working across campus to dry out waterlogged carpets and floors, fix Internet servers and phone systems, and repair buildings before students return to campus next Monday, according to the school’s website and an administrator there.Many Lamar students were scheduled to graduate in December, and thus the school had to create...