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...collapse, ultimately dissolving into a fireball--a Big Crunch that amounts to the Big Bang run in reverse. If it's not, and expansion wins out, then the universe will eventually grow unpleasantly dark and cold. Stars produce energy by fusing light atomic nuclei, mainly hydrogen and helium, into heavier ones. When the hydrogen and helium run low, old stars will sputter out without any new ones to take their place, and the universe will gradually fade to black. Such were the gloomy alternatives that Robert Frost wrote about after being briefed on the theory of the cosmic endgame...
Saturday night, the heavier police presence was visible. Students from an undergraduate group received permission to hold a party on the fifteenth floor, but a security guard, mishearing one of the students, notified HUPD dispatchers that the group was affiliated with animal rights protesters...
...grading system and general perceptions, many think HLS students have a much heavier workload--some say unmanageable--and a higher level of competitiveness than those at Yale...
Students in the program agreed that the first semester was extremely challenging academically. They say their workload is heavier than that of their colleagues...
...Lebanon before an agreement on the Golan Heights, because guaranteeing Israeli security there is one of Syria's prime bargaining chips," says MacLeod. Still, with Hezbollah now expected to fire rockets into Israel itself in retaliation for the bombing - despite Israel's warning that it would respond with even heavier bombing - Israel may find it difficult to retreat in the short term...