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...reset" button before the Congressional debate over the Budget begins in earnest. The rosy forecasts presented with the document will be powerful leverage for those who want to discredit that entire package as the work of charlatans who want to make the results of their recovery plan look better than they possibly could be. Changing the basic assumptions behind the Budget means going through the entire document, program by program, and resetting the investments and returns on the investment for each one. The $1.75 trillion deficit would grow, or some programs would have to be cut. The scope...
...like to think about the universe because we fear the immensity that is everything," writes Christopher Potter in You Are Here. A former literary publisher, Potter set aside that all-too-common fear and got to writing a layman's guide to the universe, a relatively brief look at how the breadth of scientific theory has evolved since the birth of mankind. Along the way, he makes the case for why scientific inquiry should be engaged in even by non-scientists. "Who can deny the universe when there is so much of it?" (Read "Nicaragua's Vampire Problem...
...galaxy. At the time, Kepler's supernova shone almost as brightly as Venus for several weeks. The bright light that those first observers recorded had traveled for 13,000 years to reach them. The light from Venus, however, takes only a few minutes to reach us. We look out into the night sky and record an impression of what is out there and we are inclined to think that that is how it is now, at this moment. Yet that now is made up of many nows, overlaid to make what we take to be a record of some event...
...Look, there ARE guys here!” Surprisingly, there were. The ratio of guys to girls was pretty balanced, although most girls showed up much earlier than the guys...
...frat pledges. I was informed by an anonymous source to look for these, but really, they were easy to spot. They were too slick for Hillel, too self-congratulatory and full of freshman bravado. They also had name tags that read “Dirt” and “Mango.” When asked, most good-naturedly admitted to being there facetiously. One, though, denied it and instead waxed BS about his love for girls’ feet. In response, I asked him what he thought of his own feet. He didn’t have...