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...works very hard. You can’t ask for a better student.” In the future, Yao said he plans to wrap up his current research in biophysics and branch out into the field of atomic physics. He will pursue a doctoral degree in condensed matter physics at Harvard this fall. --Staff writer Manning Ding can be reached at ding3@fas.harvard.edu...
...underage, and he'd sworn so on the heads of his own children. Berlusconi insisted that he would have "resigned immediately" if he had been guilty of any of the aforementioned spiciness with someone under the age of consent. That, he said, was all he would say on the matter. Which only kicked up more controversy...
...letting go of his obsession and caring for someone else. By the end of his adventure, he's a movie superhero, an older version of Indiana Jones. He also realizes that the small pleasures often trump the big thrills. Oz may provide death-defying fun, but what's the matter with Kansas...
...researchers cite no shortage of examples. Meerkats, whose societies are rich enough to have sustained a wildly popular television series - Meerkat Manor - don't weigh in with a whole lot of gray matter relative to their body size. The same holds true for hyenas and mongooses - albeit without the TV following. Bears, small cats and weasels, on the other hand, pack a lot of brain into their heads yet prefer to go it alone. (See pictures of animals in love...
...paucity of affordable, healthy food options in urban communities is ironic in a country with an abundance of food. "Everyone deserves to eat," says Mari Gallagher, president of the National Center for Public Research, a Chicago group that studies urban issues. The crisis, she adds, "really is a matter of life and death." (See pictures of what the world eats...