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Though Edison is usually cited as the father of the lightbulb, it's more accurate to give Edison credit as the creator of the first commercially viable lightbulb. As early as 1820, inventors were homing in on the principles that would lead to the first electric illumination. An English inventor, Joseph Swan, took their early work and developed the basis of the modern electric lightbulb in 1879 - a thin paper or metal filament surrounded by a glass-enclosed vacuum. When electricity runs through the filament, the bulb glows. Edison refined the design, trying filaments made out of platinum and cotton...
Bulldogs’ forward Miyuki Hino scored off a header to tie the game, and her teammate Becky Brown put away a loose ball to give Yale a 2-1 edge with 38 minutes remaining...
...Crimson and the Bulldogs withstood serious threats to their league record this weekend, as neither was able to finish off its Ivy opponent in regulation time. In Harvard’s win against Brown, junior Katherine Sheeleigh notched the only goal of the game at the 93rd minute to give the Crimson...
Against Cornell last Saturday, Yale freshman Kristen Forster scored her first career goal seven seconds into overtime to give the Bulldogs a 2-1 win, over a Big Red squad that Harvard bested...
...Taliban security threat. So, while a runoff election might satisfy the fraud complaints, it won't make the resulting government much more representative unless millions more voters show up at the polls this time. But the deteriorating security situation and limits of the appeal of both candidates give little reason to expect that the rerun would see a voter surge; turnout in a runoff, if anything, could be even lower. (See pictures of election day in Afghanistan...