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...between sips of coffee with pleasantries. We had inquired about each others’ concentrations; where we’d grown up; which courses we had decided to take; how we had spent our respective summers. Then, when the silence lengthened uncomfortably, I cleared my throat and introduced a formula I’d relied upon since elementary school: “So, what do you want to be when you grow...
...Rugby World Cup: For Love and Money Once More With Feeling As five-time formula One world champion Michael Schumacher waits on the grid of the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka on Oct. 12 he'll have one thing on his mind: the old F1 adage, "In order to finish first, first you have to finish." Going into the season's last race, he leads McLaren's Kimi Raikkonen by nine points, and just needs to finish in the first eight to secure a record-breaking sixth championship. Williams' Juan Pablo Montoya, touted by many F1 pundits as the heir...
...tried to get through. (The changes served their purpose: in contrast to last season, when Schumacher won 11 of the 17 races, this year eight drivers from five different teams - including his kid brother Ralf, who races for Williams - have won Grands Prix.) The result has been the best Formula One season since the 1980s. Driving legend Stirling Moss thinks the changes have made the difference. "What the fia did was excellent," he says; "it has given a great boost to the racing It helped, too, that the huge technical gap between Ferrari and the rest of the field...
Born in Albany, Rosenbluth received his bachelor’s degree from Harvard as a teenager, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. He went on to receive his doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1949. Soon after, he discovered the Rosenbluth formula for proton electron scattering, which is today a central theory of college-level physics. For this development, he later won the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award...
...Andrew Lau decided to go prequel for the first sequel (the third film will take place after the original), bringing on inexperienced actors/idols Edison Chen and Shawn Yue to play young versions of Ming and Yan, respectively. The co-directors also abandoned the rigidly structured cat-and-mouse formula that gave the original its paranoid charge, opting to create a sprawling crime epic of family, loyalty and betrayal. That's the kind of Godfather territory Hong Kong's run-of-the-mill triad flicks rarely tread. "We knew we had the chance to do something really different and great...