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Although Harvard University Art Museums have an annual operating budget of approximately $21 million, Harvard owns or has been promised all the works the exhibit and therefore absorbed only a fraction of that cost—under $100,000, Benefield said...
...there was a difference between London on 7/7 and New York City on 9/11. The first was sheer scale. Mercifully, the atrocities in London were a fraction of the human cost of 9/11. And the second was related to that but not entirely explained by it. Americans often react to crises with action and emotion. They see a problem and want to fix it. Brits' reflexive instinct at such times is often calm and steady endurance. In London last week, the immediate quiet was perhaps the most striking thing--followed by an insistence on normality. "Work's over, but there...
Despite these apparent differences, physicists have long believed that a sort of common blood unites the four forces. They are convinced that at the moment of the Big Bang, the violent birth of the universe, only a single, all-powerful force existed, and that not until a fraction of a second afterward did this force split into four. Like knights in pursuit of a visionary grail, scientists for decades have sought what they call--with a bit of tongue in cheek--a Theory of Everything (TOE), a single mathematical model that would describe the fundamental unity of the forces...
...jibes from former U.S. trade representative Robert Zoellick about your style, but it must have stung. I couldn't understand it. Why should critical policy issues be turned into character references? The U.S.-E.U. relationship is a billion-dollar-a-day relationship. The disputes between us are a fraction of the total, and have to be seen in perspective. You've just negotiated a deal with China limiting exports to the E.U. until 2008. Won't there always be the risk that some industrial sector will become vulnerable to cheap foreign imports? I've made it clear that this...
...plant. After 9/11, when al-Qaeda showed the ability to produce 19 operatives for a suicide mission on a single day, some security specialists anticipated a significant hike in the DBT. But the number of attackers in the revised DBT is less than double the old figure and a fraction of the size of the 9/11 group. (The NRC regards the exact number as an official secret.) "The NRC has taken only baby steps to improve security at the nation's nuclear plants," Representative Edward Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, told TIME last week...