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Departments that have the fewest concentrators tend to teach subject areas that have more oblique connections to current affairs and fewer obvious paths to the job market...

Author: By Elyssa A. L. Spitzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Casting Numbers Aside | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...large part of that statistic has to do with the fact that the Yale defense allows the fewest number of shots of any team in the conference...

Author: By Scott A. Sherman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Postseason Bid on the Line Against Yale | 4/30/2010 | See Source »

...potential for the future. Already endorsed by President Obama and Arizona Senator John McCain, instant-runoff, used by Australia and Canada, allows voters to rank candidates preferentially. When all the votes are received, if no candidate receives over 50 percent of the first-rank preferences, the candidate with the fewest number of first-preference votes is eliminated and the ballots that ranked the eliminated candidate first transfer their first-preference vote to their second-ranked candidate. This process goes on until one candidate wins over 50 percent of the first-preference vote. The system represents voter preferences more accurately than...

Author: By Ravi N. Mulani | Title: Making the Right Choices | 4/14/2010 | See Source »

Neither team hurts itself with penalties; Cornell and Harvard rank 1-2 respectively in the conference in fewest penalties committed...

Author: By Scott A. Sherman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: No. 10 Big Red Poses Big Problem For Crimson Lax | 4/9/2010 | See Source »

...handle countless partial charge-discharge cycles over an eight-to-10-year life cycle. The battery has to absorb energy from braking and provide short bursts of power for acceleration. Lithium-ion batteries, with their high density-to-weight ratio, provide the greatest acceleration and range with the fewest batteries compared with lead-acid or nickel-metal-hydride batteries. One big problem: they can overheat and even blow up - bad enough in a single-battery laptop but potentially disastrous in a multibattery electric car. So engineers have been busy resolving the heat problem and refining the batteries' ability to handle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Start-Ups Are Charging Into Lithium | 4/5/2010 | See Source »

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