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...criminal case against Phi Gamma Delta, the MIT fraternity chapter charged with manslaughter and hazing in the October 1997 death of first-year pledge Scott Krueger, effectively ended Monday because the fraternity disbanded and there is no one to answer the charges...
...Gamma Delta formally disbanded on Sept. 15, according to Bradley M. Henry, an attorney with the Boston firm Meehan, Boyle and Cohen, who is representing the Krueger family...
...Gamma Delta house has followed MIT's example of refusing to face responsibility for Scott Krueger's death," Henry said...
...rays and gamma rays recorded by orbiting observatories let astronomers know just how strong the magnetic field on this magnetar, dubbed SGR1900+14, is: about 800 trillion times as strong as the field that makes a compass work on Earth...
Fortunately for our planet, SGR1900+14 is 20 light-years away. Its radiation was so weakened by the time it got here that its X rays and gamma rays couldn't penetrate the atmosphere. No one was harmed--except, perhaps, for textbook publishers, who are suddenly, through no fault of their own, out of date...