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...subjects are the British code breakers who with rarefied intelligence and brain-fogging labor broke the German Enigma code in March 1943. Their feat, which helped turn the war at a very dark midpoint, allowed the reading of coded messages to and from German submarine wolf packs. The subs, whose attacks on U.S. freighter convoys in the North Atlantic were starving Britain, could then be tracked and sunk...
While the early results may not be overly impressive, the Crimson (1-1-1, 0-0 Ivy) has clearly shown that it can compete with tougher, non-Ivy league foes. Coming off an 0-8-1 non-Ivy season, that is no small feat...
...approach absolute zero (-459.67 degrees F), the waves expand and finally overlap; the atoms merge into a single "quantum state." It's extraordinarily difficult to get them to 180 billionths of a degree above absolute zero, though -- the point at which the merging occurs. Thus the Boulder group's feat was a technical as well as a scientific...
Everyone, maybe, except Howard, whose career disappointments have been precious few. Yet he is typically modest about the technical feat of making Apollo 13. "I always feel like I'm flying by the seat of my pants," he says, chuckling. "I could carry the analogy further and say I haven't even come close to making a movie on autopilot yet. I hope I never...
...week, first years will have to spend themorning acing or bombing the notoriousQuantitative Reasoning Requirement Data Test.Students arrive to their assigned testinglocation, QRR Study Guides in hand, and get readyto embark on the long journey to "20," which isthe minimum score for passing the exam. Byachieving this feat, first-years avoid the nasty"QRA" course and are liberated from bell curvesand pie charts forever--unless they're intostatistics or are regular readers of USA Today...