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Anyone who has struggled to change a fuse in their home should pity the scientists at the CERN laboratory in Geneva. Last Friday, just nine days after celebrating the successful test run of the largest particle accelerator ever constructed, a tiny electrical connection between two magnets overheated and caused a minor meltdown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why The Large Hadron Collider Is Already On The Fritz | 9/22/2008 | See Source »

...fourth quarter comeback. “Our defensive coordinator, Coach Doherty, he challenged us a lot in practice, and the coaching staff did a great job of putting us in the right position,” said Harvard captain and defensive tackle Matt Curtis. Down 24-12 with nine minutes to go in the fourth, a series of handoffs from senior Chris Pizzotti to sophomore Gino Gordon moved the Crimson from its own 34 to the Crusader 29. After a 28-yard pass to junior receiver Matt Luft, Pizzotti carried the ball in for his first rushing touchdown...

Author: By Dixon McPhillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Comeback Crusade | 9/21/2008 | See Source »

...where the U.S. Open will be played in 2009. Players in this week’s tournament could see officials preparing the course in anticipation of the June major. This year’s team is a much more consistent, able, and cohesive bunch, as indicated by the mere nine shot difference between scores from the best and worst rounds posted by Crimson competitors. “Consistently providing good scores up and down the team, one through five, is how you make a good team,” Shore said. “And, we?...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Joyce, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Steady Play at Season Opener | 9/21/2008 | See Source »

...read our keys, we had a great game plan going in, a young secondary got a lot of good experience today probably against the best offense, the best passing offense at least, we’ll face all year.”Down 24-12, with nine minutes to go in the fourth, a series of handoffs from fifth-year senior Chris Pizzotti to sophomore Gino Gordon moved the Crimson from their own 34 to the Crusader 29. After a 28-yard pass to junior receiver Matt Luft, Pizzotti rushed the ball in for his first rushing touchdown...

Author: By Dixon McPhillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fourth-Quarter Heroics Yield Victory Under Lights | 9/20/2008 | See Source »

...scandal has also spread beyond the mainland. On Sep. 18, Hong Kong's government ordered a recall of all products made by Yili, one of China's largest dairy producers, after melamine was found in nine of the company's products. There have been no reports of any sickness among Hong Kong babies caused by those products. But the local Center for Food Safety said only two glasses of the tainted Yili milk per day could be enough to cause health problems in young children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Rage Over Toxic Baby Milk | 9/19/2008 | See Source »

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