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...want to make sure you get enough sleep on Tuesday night, you might have to get to bed earlier. You don't have to adjust your schedule by much: about 1.26 millionths of a second ought to do it. According to a NASA scientist's computer modeling, that's how much an Earth day should have been shortened by the subterranean upheaval that triggered the Feb. 27 earthquake in Chile. Some basic physics explains why. (See pictures of Chile's massive earthquake...
Heading into the final round of the 2010 Women’s Ivy League Championships on Saturday night at Blodgett Pool, it was an extremely close contest between defending champions Harvard (6-1 Ivy) and historically-dominant Princeton (7-0). Following two days of competition, the Tigers were leading the Crimson by a narrow margin of 982-944. The title, it seemed, would literally be decided in the final few races...
Harvard faced a similarly tight game the night before, as the Crimson found itself down 6-3 at halftime. An 11-3 run before the final buzzer solidified Harvard’s only win of the weekend...
...counseling Sarah Palin in the final days of the campaign and attacking Obama from the podium at the Republican Convention in St. Paul, Minn. "Joe Lieberman ought to be ashamed of himself," then campaign spokesman Robert Gibbs said the next day. "It's pathetic what [he] did here last night." But Obama opted to let those bygones pass when his party won a near filibuster-proof margin in the Senate. Obama personally asked the Democratic caucus to maintain Lieberman's seniority and preserve his committee chairmanship. That proved to be wise - mostly. In early 2009, Lieberman helped rescue Obama...
...history. Lieberman is doing all of this with an eye to his own political survival. With 25% approval ratings in Connecticut, he needs to woo moderate Democrats and independents if he's going to have a chance at re-election in 2012. (See pictures of 60 years of election-night drama...