Word: loops
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seems that as the stakes increase, the extent of Harvard oversight dwindles. Sperling and Eisenson report directly to the Corporation--bypassing all established safeguards for ethical investment. It's a very small loop that doesn't include students and whose decisions are not reported regularly...
...three events include the criterion, which is 15 laps for the women and 25 laps for the men's A squad around a one-mile loop with embankments. The second event is a team time trial consisting of the best times over a 15-mile flat course. And the third event is a 36-mile individual road race for the women and a 72-mile road race for the men's A squad...
Supersymmetric particles could also give a boost to superstring theory, one of the hottest ideas in theoretical physics. Superstring theory holds that every particle is really a vibrating loop of stringlike material that exists in ten-dimensional space (most of these dimensions are confined to such a small scale that we never notice them). Whether the string takes on the role of a quark or an electron or a Higgs boson depends simply on how it vibrates...
...tried filmmaking as an extension of his painting. Lynch's first work was a "film sculpture," a one-minute animated loop in which six people get sick over and over while their heads catch on fire. A painter who saw it commissioned Lynch to make another animated film. Lynch bought a camera and spent two months shooting before he realized the camera was broken. "It was one long piece of blurred film," he says. "But it was the weirdest thing; I wasn't one bit depressed...
...Committee of Deans, an advisory board appointed by Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence, is the inner loop of FAS. And while its actions and influence may remain outside the public eye, this low-profile group continues to maintain a high-profile membership...