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...announcement comes as the College mounts its own crackdown on underage drinking. And it comes three years after the old owner of Louie’s Superette, the popular convenience store near Mather House, had his license suspended for 12 days for selling alcohol to minors...
...company decided last month to renovate a 59,000-square foot space at Five Cambridge Center, near MIT, according to the Boston Business Journal. The new space will replace the company’s current 18,000-square foot Cambridge office and with the move, scheduled for early 2008, the branch will become Google’s regional headquarters...
Google “emotional turmoil,” “skinny jeans,” or “near-death in a bathtub,” and you’ll probably come across a YouTube link for Tegan and Sara’s video for “The Con.” The meek opening chords, when coupled with successive shots of a nervously-jiggling, Converse-clad foot, followed by Tegan draped melancholically on a therapist’s couch, set the angst factor rather high. The ashy tones and urban feel just ooze somberness...
...during the 1980s presented what he saw as an irresistible opportunity. Hunting for safe neighborhoods to mine, he settled on the northern Nevada desert and set about convincing investors that this was the time to gamble on North American gold. Those who believed him were soon rewarded. Goldstrike mine, near the town of Elko, has become the largest mine outside South Africa...
...evidence that they were, thanks to microscopic fossils of foraminifera, a type of plankton that largely died with the dinosaurs. Precisely dating the dinosaurs' demise is tough because most bones disintegrate before they can be fossilized. Plankton, by contrast, are preserved in ocean sediments. Keller studied sediments near the impact site in Mexico, where a massive bloom of new plankton species should have emerged within a handful of millenniums after the impact, taking advantage of the evolutionary room the extinctions created in the ocean. She found her bloom, all right, but 300,000 years later than expected. She then went...