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...Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) administration is one bureaucratic layer closer to the undergraduate, but don't expect to spend too many Thursdays sipping tea with the denizens of University Hall's newly refurbished top floors...
...number of transistors that can be crammed onto a silicon wafer the size of a fingernail. They do this by etching microscopic grooves onto crystalline silicon with beams of ultraviolet radiation. A typical wire in a Pentium chip is now 1/500 the width of a human hair; the insulating layer is only 25 atoms thick...
...This physical separation from the College added another layer of isolation between the veterans and non-veterans. Even the veterans in the Houses barely got to know their compatriots...
...measuring faint magnetic fields emitted by the brains of professional musicians, a team led by Christo Pantev of the University of Muenster's Institute of Experimental Audiology in Germany has shown that intensive practice of an instrument leads to discernible enlargement of parts of the cerebral cortex, the layer of gray matter most closely associated with higher brain function...
...monitor a future warrior's physiological status, the boots and helmet as well as the innermost layer of the uniform will contain tiny microsensors embedded in the fabric...