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...Sciences Dean Venkatesh Narayanamurti said. “Without that network of help, this would not be possible.” Narayanamurti is developing transistors “so small you need a special kind of microscope to see them.” Lars Hernquist, professor of astronomy, analyzes light to learn about how galaxies are formed. He hopes he can use a high-powered telescope for the research. “If you do observations in astronomy, it’s kind of like a time machine,” Hernquist said. “The more sensitive...
...pretty well as a team,” Powers said. “The conditions were pretty challenging the whole weekend, because they were light and choppy, and there’s never really chop on the Charles River, so we’re not used to practicing in that...
Despite the surrounding hype, chances are neither the British inquiry nor their eyeballing of the Parisian venues Diana sped through before the crash will shed any new light on what happened that August night ten years ago. "We know what caused her death: it's been catalogued in minute detail by investigators in both countries," says one slightly disgusted French justice official when asked about this week's visit to Paris by the jurors. "Case closed - move on." He goes on: "The official logic is by giving them the visual framework and time-span they all fit into, [the jurors...
...obtain information. The Administration refuses to confirm specific interrogation techniques because it says opponents can train against them if they know what to expect. Extensive reporting, however, has shown that the U.S. has used techniques including raising and lowering temperatures in detainees' cells, withholding food, isolation, sleep deprivation with light or noise, forcing detainees into stress positions, head-slapping and water-boarding or simulated drowning. Critics like Human Rights First, Human Rights Watch and the Council of Europe, among others, say that some of these techniques - individually or in combination - can amount to torture...
...delays posed by this "satanic subtlety" may also be giving the other half of the drama time to play out. The Supreme Court's ambiguous yellow light means "absolutely nothing," says Ayesha Tammy Haq, a lawyer and prominent political talk show host. That's because she believes that a long rumored power-sharing deal between Musharraf and Bhutto, the self-exiled two-time Prime Minister who fled Pakistan in 1999 under still-unanswered charges of corruption, is still on. Indeed, Musharraf was not opposed by Bhutto's powerful Pakistan People's Party (PPP) during Saturday's vote: the PPP simply...