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Give yourself a big pat on the back. You've made it; no matter how "crazy" or "stressed-out" your reading period and exam schedule has been, at 5:15 p.m. today, summer will officially begin...
While undergraduates know Kirshner as the professor of the popular Core class Science A-35, "Matter in The Universe," Kirshner moonlights as a member of the High-Z Supernova team, a group of researchers who looks at supernovae...
...missiles more accurate, just smaller. Some of their new nukes might be more mobile and harder to find. So in a nuclear war, the U.S. probably wouldn't be able to knock out as many Chinese missiles; of course, in nuclear war, it's hard to imagine that mattering all that much. Indeed, if the current furor has any useful purpose, it might be to remind U.S. weaponry hawks that very little of the feverish work that goes on in Los Alamos these days is actually improving America's ability to win a war. "I liken it to teenagers working...
Moved PermanentlyMoved PermanentlyFortune Investor Data"People see 4.1 percent growth and they start thinking about inflation again, no matter how low it seems to be now," says TIME Wall Street columnist Daniel Kadlec. "And after yesterday's rally, there's a mood that this may be the last chance to get out." But that doesn't fully explain the run on the big Dow industrials, which have lately been favorites in times of trouble. Kadlec thinks some of that can be blamed on the holiday. "There's often a lightening of positions before a long weekend," he says, "so traders...
...only a matter of time before weight-loss drugs and the Internet got together. They're made for each other. More and more of us go online and, perhaps partly as a result, more and more of us meet the clinical definition of obesity (about 66 million Americans today weigh 30% more than they should). So it was no surprise that sales of Xenical, the diet pill that just won FDA approval, exploded across the Net last week. There is, it seems, no shortage of Doritos-gobbling geeks who would prefer to fight flab without doing anything more strenuous than...