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...believe you have already faced your biggest challenges, or do they still lie ahead? -Michael Crayton, SeattleThe absolute biggest challenge for us all is global warming. I wish the American government would wake up to this fact, because it is going to have an effect on our children. Now, what is the answer to that problem? It could be that we are already too late and that the world is destined to heat up dramatically. That is why we have set up this $25 million prize that will be awarded to the person who finds a solution to global warming...
Nineteen minutes to play, Vermont 46, Harvard 29—the scoreboard did not lie. The Crimson was down, and down big.But the squad was not out. Using a 24-3 run over the next seven minutes of play, Harvard stormed back to take a 53-49 lead.It would have been historic—if there weren’t 12 more minutes of basketball to be played.Despite its best efforts, the Crimson (4-8) came up short in its comeback bid against America East rival Vermont (3-6) in a 73-68 loss yesterday at Lavietes Pavilion, its fourth...
...there a practical application here? He speculates that if belief brain scanning were sufficiently refined it could act as an accurate lie detector and help control for the placebo effect in drug design...
...also points out that since Jan. 1, 2006, some 1.5 million voters have been registered in Florida. While conceding that 14,000 other applicants have yet to get on the voter rolls, Hearn maintains that her main concern pertains to the potential for fraud with absentee ballots. "Our concerns lie not in the in-person voting but in the absentee voting where a person doesn't have to go to the polls," Hearn says. "Once they get registered they can vote absentee. That's extremely difficult to detect...
...appease his rebellious barons, the charter was revised over the years until the 1297 version became the foundation of English liberties. When Texas billionaire Ross Perot managed to buy one privately in 1984 for $1.5 million, he lent it to the National Archives so it could lie beside its democratic descendants, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, in testimony to the power of pen over sword. But amid a revived debate over the meaning of due process in the age of terrorism, the Perot Foundation decided it wanted more money to spend on its signature causes, particularly the care...