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...days after Buffett's disclosure and up nearly 70% since he started buying the precious metal six months ago. Despite the surge, veteran--and thus oft-pummeled--silver traders will note that a price just north of $7 is nothing next to silver's peak in 1980, when it hit $50 amid an infamous attempt by the brothers Herbert and Nelson Hunt to corner the market...
...been operating, no one really knows. Finding out might seem to be a hopeless task, considering that the phenomenon was discovered only about a century ago by Peruvian fishermen. (It was they who called it El Nino, the Spanish name for the Christ child whose December birthday marks its peak.) But last fall, Columbia University oceanographer Richard Fairbanks was floating in the equatorial Pacific gathering data that could tell researchers about El Ninos going back thousands of years. Working aboard the research vessel Moana Wave, Fairbanks spent weeks at El Nino's very epicenter, a patch of ocean near Christmas...
Last weekend, the Harvard women's basketball team ascended to a peak when senior Allison Feaster scored her 2,000th career point versus Yale...
...Before the meet," said sophomore standout Nancy Jo, "[Coach Steff Wreide] told us that this would be our last opportunity to practice our events before Princeton. And I think that we got ourselves fine tuned so we can perform at our peak against Princeton next weekend...
...ancient China, imperial gratification was a tidier affair. An Emperor in the Chou dynasty had 37 wives and 81 concubines. Harem administrators kept track of menstrual cycles, scheduling sex at each woman's peak fertility...