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Less glamorous but more sweeping than the half-year Phoenix mission was the long-running Ulysses mission, which took the first full measure of the sun's polar regions. If it swirls, floats or emanates near the sun, Ulysses studied it. The spacecraft discovered that the sun's magnetic field determines the regions that produce the solar wind, and ruffled more than a few scientists' feathers when it showed that a hot corona produces the fastest solar winds--exactly the opposite of prevailing theories...
...jury at the inquests into the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Fayed, the next six months could be the longest - and most confusing - half-year of their lives. As the coroner Lord Justice Scott Baker wrapped up his opening statement on Wednesday, the men and women tasked with deciding, once and for all, how the couple died finally have a full picture of the road ahead. And it's not going to be smooth...
...ranging from 10,000 announced layoffs this past spring to the two-year production delays (costing an additional $3 billion) of the A380 have wiped out the lead it had on Boeing. Total orders so far this year show Boeing with 701, 13 more than Airbus. In the weeks following the highly publicized 787 rollout on July 8, Boeing posted its largest quarterly profit in nearly four years, at $1.1 billion. And for the first time, its commercial-airplane unit earned more than its defense side; half-year revenues increased 15%, to $16.3 billion, with a 13% increase on airplane...
...effort to cater to the broad interests of Harvard’s students, last spring, the Faculty approved secondary fields, optional programs of four to six half-year courses that will appear on a student’s transcript (but not diploma) after graduation. The EPC, empowered to implement these mini-concentrations, last week announced 24 secondary fields had been approved for the spring term. They will apply retroactively so that the Class of 2007 will be able to have secondary fields on their transcripts...
...Four years on, people are still stealing music online. But they're also buying it - and at a fast-growing rate. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (ifpi) says that global sales of digital music zoomed to $1.1 billion last year, up from $380 million in 2004. Digital music now provides around 6% of most companies' revenues, up from almost nil two years ago, and that growth shows no signs of peaking. And more than any other major label, EMI's comeback mirrors the changing fortunes of the music world. In its half-year results for the period ending...