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Like all physics concentrators, Slichter carried a heavy academic course load. But as a result of World War II, the first two years of the young physicist's course of study was crammed into...
...response to queries about the three suicides, Epps noted that Harvard's mental health case load has increased in recent years because of advances in medicines to treat mental illness...
...computer doesn't work, I engage in a few modern rituals. I turn it off, then on again -- the equivalent of throwing a cup of cold water in its face. Or I try starting it while holding down the shift key; that secret handshake tells my computer to load only its most essential programs. Then, I add the one I need, hoping it won't crash my system. I've found that rapping my machine smartly on its side never cures the problem. It does, however, precipitate a brief but gratifying starburst pattern on the monitor, much...
...boring town where I lived. My new rule as Bone was, "Basically don't bother your parents and don't bother the cops or one of them will sic the other on you, because to them, to all of them you're just another homeless stoned dropout dealing small-load boom to the locals." Great, but then Mr. Banks decides for some goofy reason to send me to Jamaica for further adventures. Which I never believed, especially some stuff about finding my jerk of a real father, and you won't either. I mean, Mr. Banks seems to know...
Rupert Murdoch isn't somebody to sit back and count his blessings. It was just two weeks ago that the U.S. Federal Communications Commission took a load off his mind when it decided not to force him to reduce his ownership stake in eight stations that are at the center of his Fox TV network. With that major distraction out of the way and the coffers of his News Corp. global media empire bursting--he boasted recently of having $1 billion on hand--everybody figured it was just a matter of time until his next big move...