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...sense of living is somehow heightened, whose gestures are grandiose and larger than life. But, like a force of nature, or a mutant, he is never explained--we are left unclear whether this strange, attractive figure is the eternal type of the low-born, high-living con man, an Ivar Krueger or Bernie Cornfeld, or the unique, demented product of his own life history...
Half the physics prize is to be divided between Japanese-born Leo Esaki, 48, of IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York and Norwegian-born Ivar Giaever, 44, of G.E.'s Research and Development Center in Schenectady, N.Y. The other half goes to Welsh-born Brian D. Josephson, 33, of Cambridge University. In a series of brilliant experiments and calculations, the three scientists explored different aspects of a phenomenon that has become increasingly significant in modern electronics: electron "tunneling," the passage of electrons through insulating material that, according to classical physics, they should...
Quasha did not drop a game in advancing through Saturday's preliminary rounds. The Harvard senior first defeated Army's Ivar Kaardal, 15-9, 15-7, 15-5, and then finished off Penn's Dave Lott in the semifinals, 15-9, 15-5, 15-10. In the championship match, Quasha downed Vosters in three straight...
...first seed in the first round of the "C" division. In the second round, the Harvard senior embarrassed Navy's Ted Turnblazer, 15-13, 15-6, 15-3, and routed Amherst's Jeff Sawyer, 15-7, 15-5, 15-6. Quasha will be challenging Army's Ivar Kaardal in the quarterfinals and should move on to the semifinals along with Dave Lott of Penn...
...widely assumed that more education leads to greater productivity. Not necessarily. In Education and Jobs: The Great Training Robbery, Sociologist Ivar Berg studied the performance of workers in the light of their education and concluded that schooling often leads to less productivity in work, not more. Nonetheless, rampant