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...enough to make you want to flee the city?and you still can, provided you pass the airport's new mandatory health checks and you're not booked on the nearly one-third of flights to or from Hong Kong that have been canceled. But take heart, Hong Kongers, you have the steely will to persevere in a city the World Health Organization (WHO) has deemed unsafe for nonessential visits. Even the Stones, grizzled human petri dishes that they are, were frightened away by the very environment you call home. At the moment, despite the Health Department's explanation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where the Scrubbing Never Stops | 4/21/2003 | See Source »

Jack Harris, a post-doc researcher, has his lab next door. His research involves supercool low-temperature Physics. Harris estimates that approximately one-third of the experimental physics at Harvard is supercool. Because of such extreme coolness (Harris’ experiment runs at .3 degrees above absolute zero), the research hinges on first-rate apparatus. About two-thirds of the equipment is made from scratch, and a substantial fraction is made in-house at the shop next door by Stanley Cotreau. Harris described Cotreau as, “one of the few people at Harvard who is the absolute master...

Author: By J.a. Kramer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: If I Had A Blow Torch, I’d Blow Torch in the Morning | 4/10/2003 | See Source »

Surprisingly Ronz is the only recruit from the class of 2003 to figure prominently into the Crimson’s pitching scheme this season. Highly-touted and strong in numbers (over one-third if the pitchers on roster are members of the class of 2003) it would be hard not to call the class a collective disappointment.  Performances by seniors Ronz, Matt Self, Madhu Satyanarayana and others will dictate the legacy of the senior class...

Author: By Sean W. Coughlin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Newcomers Answer Ivy Champs' Call to Arms | 4/10/2003 | See Source »

...sale would increase Harvard’s land-holdings in Allston—where the University plans a future campus—by one-third...

Author: By Alex L. Pasternack, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Boston, Mayor Resist Harvard's Land Bid | 4/4/2003 | See Source »

...estimated one-third of the city's 350,000 residents--including Korean conscripts and imperial army units--were killed instantly. Many thousands more would die from its radioactive poison in the coming years. The bomb turned glass to liquid, buildings to dust, and people to mere shadows etched on the ruins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aug. 6, 1945 | 3/31/2003 | See Source »

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