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Zuckerberg and Co. have made constantly checking Facebook more vital than ever with the new “Status” feature. Let Fifteen Minutes clue you in on 15 “status” entries that will make you cool and popular with the obsessive compulsive set. John Harvard is... 1) ...with your mom. 2) ...right behind you. 3) ...wishing I could quit you! 4) ...eating an entire wheel of cheese. 5) ...working on Domna’s presidential campaign. 6) ...climbing the dragon phallus. 7) ...trapped between the moving bookshelves in Widener. 8) ...having...
...problem. But in “Imagining Numbers,” his 2002 book, he hopes to explain such mind-bogglers to scholars outside the TI-83 set. Mazur’s book, with the parenthetical subtitle “Particularly the Square Root of Minus Fifteen,” started as a letter explaining imaginary numbers to Michel Chaouli, a professor of German and comparative literature at Indiana University. Chaouli praised Mazur extensively in an e-mail, calling him “the most remarkable thinker I have ever met.” Professor of Mathematics Noam D. Elkies...
...friends, left with five bags of goodies. In addition, there were raffles for a digital camera, a Coop gift certificate and an iPod. Proceeds went to Relay for Life which had a booth at the event. “We had people lining outside the door for the first fifteen minutes,” said Emily W. Hogeland ’07, who chaired the event’s Programming and Promotions Committee. One Currier blocking group did particularly well in the raffle, with four members winning prizes including a video iPod and some of the gift certificates, according...
...easy win,” said Martin. “We knew we were just going to have to fight the whole way.” The effort paid off, as the team only lost by twelve seconds to Princeton and defeated Ivy foe Cornell by fifteen seconds in the varsity eight, posting a time of 7:23:5. Radcliffe (3-1) also posted a second in the second varsity eight and the varsity four, while the second novice eight attained the Black and White’s lone victory on the day. “It was a pretty...
...three goals scored, would go on to play a crucial part in the Crimson comeback. After another BU goal, Martin slipped a goal pass Golden to tie the score at five all. Martin also provided an assist to junior Margaret Yellott 17:41 into the first half. Perched about fifteen yards out from the goal, Martin threw a quick inlet pass to Yellott. Using a swift spin move, she shook her defender and left an easy shot on goal. In the next possession, Martin took a chance at the goal. Situated on the right side of the goal, she angled...