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...Digable Planets Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space) (Pendulum). Combining upscale jazz and proletarian hip hop, Digable Planets has brought two sides of the black experience together, uniting buppies and b-boys from Howard University to Howard Beach...
...rover that Hayabusa will dispatch to roam the asteroid for several days. The robot, named Minerva, will use its miniature cameras and thermometers to send data back to the mothership. Since wheels are useless on such low-gravity surfaces, the coffee-can-sized machine will maneuver using an internal pendulum?a swinging weight that will let the bot hop about the surface...
While Harvard dominated play early, the pendulum swung towards BU as the game progressed, and the Terriers pressed the Crimson in search of the equalizer. BU outshot Harvard 10-6 for the game and 4-1 in the second half alone, when the Crimson was attacking into the afternoon...
...corporate frauds that came to light inflamed the public. Since then, bruised investors have been demanding amends. Twenty years ago, a similar rash of Wall Street fraud resulted in only a few honchos like Michael Milken going to prison, and spending less than two years there. Now the pendulum has swung the other direction. In addition to jail time, Kozlowski and Swartz must pay a total of $134 million in restitution; in addition, Kozlowski was fined $70 million, Swartz $35 million...
...going to give small companies some relief from Sarbanes-Oxley by extending for one year the deadline for coming into compliance. It could be that the recent string of decades-long prison sentences for white-collar criminals proves to be an extreme; the point at which the pendulum begins moving the other way again...