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...though faculty praise Salhanick's abilities, the use of such a large incentive caused concern among many who object both to the idea of paying a professor to retire and to the subjectivity involved in calculating such a bonus without a clearly stated policy or methodology...
Astronomers are not sure how our moon was formed, but increasingly they have come to suspect it was born in violence, blasted away from Earth by a collision with a planet-like object at least as big as Mars. To test this theory, a research team from Tokyo University and the University of Colorado, Boulder, developed a computer program that would simulate such a cosmic crack-up and let the scientists watch it play out. As the investigators predicted, the planet--roughly half the size of Earth--was annihilated by the collision, surrounding Earth with a Saturnesque ring of rubble...
...Work on the April 7, 1944 issue of the wartime Crimson publication, the Harvard Service News, was interrupted when what foreign object came flying through a pressroom window...
...whole object is to invite people who wish to visit or to work in Asia," Chan said. "People in Boston are globally oriented and do have specific interest in Singapore...
...second-floor apartment. In a steamer trunk no more than a few feet from the bed where Einhorn slept, homicide detective Michael Chitwood found the mummified body of his girlfriend. Holly Maddux's skull had been fractured in six or more places under the angry force of a blunt object. Chitwood, now the police chief in Portland, Maine, remembers the dialogue to this day: "I turned to Einhorn and said, 'It looks like we found Holly.' And he said to me, 'You found what you found...