Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...missed is Jacob Jordaens's amusing genre scene of a corpulent "Married With Children" type family entitled As the Old Ones Sing, So the Young Ones Pipe (1640-45). Also impressive are Van Dyck's stately, sweeping Portrait of the Marchesa Elena Grimaldi, and the massive, sixteen-foot Boar Hunt by Frans Snyders...
...hunt for dark matter is not just an academic exercise. It is a quest to know the fate of the universe. The unseen material makes up at least 90% of the mass in the cosmos, generates most of the gravity and thus controls the universe's evolution. If there's enough dark matter producing a sufficient amount of gravitational force, the universe will eventually stop expanding and then collapse in an apocalyptic Big Crunch. If there's not, the expansion will go on forever...
...entirely different type of star argues against that possibility. The next step is to comb through another million observations already stored in the computer. If nothing more shows up, it means MACHOs alone can't account for all the dark matter. Attention would then shift to the hunt for undiscovered subatomic particles. But if several more MACHOs -- Griest won't say exactly how many -- pop out of the computer, then they could probably account for the entire dark-matter halo. And scientists could be more confident that they have at last found the main fabric of the universe...
...complained that Dunster Assistant Senior Tutor Vincent W. Li `87 had influenced the hiring of his brother, his girlfriend and two friends. Thirty-nine Dunster students signed a petition calling for Li's removal. Students and tutors charged that Dunster House Master Karel F. Liem was conducting a witch hunt to identify the tutors who spoke anonymously with The Crimson. Assistant Senior Tutor Cynthia Palmer resigned the morning after the petition was circulated, saying that "recent events had affected her decision...
Cambridge and state police yesterday continued to hunt for clues on the ground surrounding the Whalens' first-floor apartment. Authorities said they did not have a suspect in the case, which is being treated as a homicide...