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Yale defended their home course advantage winning the tournament with a team score of 302, just edging second-place Columbia by four strokes. The Crimson shot a 322 for the tournament, which was cancelled during Sunday's second round due to hail...
Could something like this really happen? Probably not. Such fanciful scenarios are period pieces. They belong to the 1950s and '60s, when scientists harbored an almost naive faith in the ability of modern technology to end droughts, banish hail and improve meteorological conditions in countless other ways. At one point, pioneering chemist Irving Langmuir suggested that it would prove easier to change the weather to our liking than to predict its duplicitous twists and turns. The great mathematician John von Neumann even calculated what mounting an effective weather-modification effort would cost the U.S.--about as much as building...
...cognitive neurology concentrator whose parents hail from Ghana, Blankson hopes to spend his years in the Air Force as a doctor...
...Harvard men's lacrosse team took a while to warm-up in the windy mix of rain and hail that saturated Jordan Field Saturday, but by the fourth frame the Crimson was coasting to a 19-2 romp over a besieged Boston College team...
...hail Marx and Lennon--John Lennon, that is. Funky Business, published by a subsidiary of Britain's Financial Times newspaper, is probably the first business book to draw simultaneous inspiration from the father of communism as well as from one of the all-time great rock stars. Both iconic figures, the book notes, preached "Power to the people," but it has taken the global embrace of market capitalism to deliver the goods...