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...Harvard's biggest threat is, as usual, perimeter shooting. Brandt, Seanor, co-captain Megan Basil and junior Suzie Miller have been raining treys throughout the season, and they have been getting hotter as the season has progressed...
Brown has been even hotter than Rensselaer. The Bears have charged up the conference, losing just two of their last 11 games and outscoring the opposition 36-29 over that period. Currently tied for fifth with Cornell, Brown just dispatched the Big Red 5-1 last Friday and picked apart Colgate 6-2 the following day. Friday's game should be a good test for them as they host Clarkson...
...Nina can bring its own set of weather headaches: a drier, hotter southern tier and a wetter, colder north. "Like a pendulum that goes back and forth, El Nino is one side of the extreme and La Nina is the other," says Scripps' Lisa Goddard. Although the magnitude of an El Nino doesn't necessarily determine the size of the subsequent La Nina, some climatologists are already saying that if you think this El Nino was bad, wait until you see his sister...
Another Boston report described a family "bothered by the uncontrollable heat in [their apartment], which is directly above the boiler room. The temperature is always above 85 degrees....The surface of the floor is even hotter; the familymust wear shoes at all times to avoid burning thesoles of their feet...
...early 1960s, the computer industry was in the midst of a benign revolution--and Fairchild was a breeding ground for revolutionaries. Early computers were fast, but attempts to make them faster were running into a thermodynamic wall: every time you asked the computer to think harder, it got hotter, like a grad student sweating his orals. The heat came from vacuum tubes, which acted as giant on-off switches, holding and releasing electrical charges. (A central "computer" tallied up all the on-off signals as ones and zeroes, and translated the results into real mathematics.) But the tubes, which sucked...