Word: hundredths
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...optimism, Engineering professor Frederick H. Abernathy, a long-time member of the Faculty who said he has only been to one meeting so far this academic year, had his own idea about how to deal with the problem. “Why not make it a hundredth?” he quipped. “Then they could just do it in the Dean’s office.” —Staff writer Christian B. Flow can be reached at cflow@fas.harvard.edu...
...type of dim red star known as an M-dwarf, only about a hundredth as bright as the sun. During the 1990s, sky surveys revealed that these puny stars are as thick as ants at a picnic, accounting for up to 70% of all the stars in the Milky Way. Because an M-dwarf is so faint, its habitable zone is much smaller, so any planet that falls within that zone would be much closer to it than Earth is to the sun. And that, says Harvard astronomer David Charbonneau, gives planet hunters a huge advantage. "Basically," he says...
...places round about Cambridge.”The evening revelry so irritated the University administration that the group was asked to disband. Gassett ignored the official request.After an uncertain first century, The Crimson congratulated the Sodality on the group’s centennial in 1908.“The hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Pierian Sodality is an event of considerable significance in the musical world,” The Crimson wrote. “For a century the Pierian Sodality has held its own through varying fortunes and has made valuable contributions to the study of music...
...decisions.” The large cut was to some degree unexpected, as most economists and banks were predicting a quarter point drop. “I thought [the cut] was going to be 25 basis points,” Stock said, using the financial term for one one-hundredth of a percent. “If I had thought it was going to be 50, I would have loved to take advantage of that.” However, Jorgenson feels that the Fed still has room to cut further if it needs to. “I thought...
...unlike our world, which orbits a comfortable 92.9 million miles from the flames of the sun, 581c hovers just 7 million miles from its home star. What prevents it from being incinerated like a match head is that its star is a red dwarf, only about one one-hundredth as bright as the sun. The dim light coupled with the planet's close proximity places it in what astronomers call the habitable zone: the spot at which temperatures remain comfortable and water can remain liquid. All this has led to a fair amount of astronomical hyperventilating. "On the treasure...