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...Depending on how an accountant would value the equity that the Treasury will get in Detroit, the federal government will put $40 billion into the U.S. car industry and that number could go higher if the domestic automotive market does not recover. The auto industry is selling fewer than 10 million cars a year after selling over 16 million just four year ago and under those circumstances no expense reduction will make the industry profitable...
...Planck will also attempt an extraordinary mathematical feat: calculating the total number of atoms in the universe. With that information, it can infer the total density of the mysterious quantity known as dark matter. "We're looking at the physics at the very beginning of the physical universe," says ESA director of science David Southwood...
...study has shown abstinence-only programs have almost no impact on teens’ sexual behavior. One, commissioned by Congress and conducted by Mathematica Policy Research over the course of nine years, found that students receiving abstinence-only education had sex no later than those who did not. The number of sexual partners and use of contraception did not differ between the groups either. Another study, from Johns Hopkins, found that students who take virginity pledges—a key part of many abstinence-only curricula—were no less likely to have premarital sex than those...
...Cutting shuttle service.. fucking sucks.. They are cutting the night shuttle service by hours. This is both a huge annoyance for quad folk AND a safety risk, given the apparently large number of lecherous Harvard men who wait in the wings on weekend nights. This is probably a lot worse than the hot breakfast cuts, though I'm sure somebody will have some stupid snarky reply about how 'THE QUAD SUCKS BRO.. BUT YUM I LOVE PANCAKES...
Rumors abound that the administration is planning to cut dining hall workers as a result of cutting breakfast. One cook in Adams has even pinpointed a target number: eliminating two dining hall workers from every House, either through early retirement or layoffs. How does he know this secret information? A student forwarded this email over to Adams Schmooze...