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Welcome to the world of the H-Bomb, fabled weapon of the Harvard male: Tell a girl you go to Harvard, and she’ll fall at your feet. No matter who you were in high school, the myth goes, you’re a hot commodity once you manage to slip where you go to school into casual conversation...

Author: By Irin Carmon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Power of the H-Bomb | 10/17/2002 | See Source »

...H-Bomb is something no one wants to admit to using. Unsurprisingly, many of those reputed to be zealous perpetrators were unwilling to speak publicly about their exploits. Thus it is that with a few candid exceptions, the true efficacy of the H-Bomb is difficult to prove, further inflating the lore...

Author: By Irin Carmon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Power of the H-Bomb | 10/17/2002 | See Source »

...Guys joke about ‘reeling them in with the H-Bomb,’” says Whitney H. Welshimer ’03, a Crimson editor. “Or they say, ‘That girl from B.C. is only dating him because he threw out the H-Bomb.’ And I know many more groups of guys than girls who go off-campus...

Author: By Irin Carmon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Power of the H-Bomb | 10/17/2002 | See Source »

This sentiment—that the H-Bomb is an exclusively male beast—is widespread among women on campus. “Good for guys, bad for us,” is how Jennifer P. Klein ’04 sums...

Author: By Irin Carmon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Power of the H-Bomb | 10/17/2002 | See Source »

...Before Davis came along in the 1960s, physicists were convinced that the Sun's heat came from nuclear fusion the same process that powers the H-bomb - but they had no proof. But Davis realized that fusion reactions at the sun's core should generate neutrinos, elusive particles that would escape and fly all the way to, and through the Earth. He put a detector deep underground to screen out other stray particles, and, sure enough, there were the neutrinos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nobel Journal: Analyzing Molecules | 10/9/2002 | See Source »

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