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...site has barely gotten off the ground - it officially launched on Jan. 6 - it's already impressively close to its goal. Thanks in part to the countless media layoffs around the country, MNN has been able to assemble a surprisingly accomplished staff for such a new property, including Peter Dykstra, the former head of CNN's science unit, and bloggers like the New York Times's Jim Motavalli, a transportation expert. That talent has enabled MNN to get a fast start on harder environmental news, even as it does the yeoman's Web work of aggregating content from other sites...
Well, I love music. I was inspired by artists like Earth, Wind and Fire; Bob Marley; Peter Tosh--and they would fuse social issues into their music, so I don't think of it as political activism but social activism. I don't like politics. I find the energy to do [it all] because I'm passionate...
...wage, high cost-of-living state like Massachusetts is fairly high,” Monsell said. “I think increasing the taxable wage base to reduce the gap between employer payments and employee benefits would be prudent to consider.” —Staff writer Peter F. Zhu can be reached at pzhu@fas.harvard.edu...
...confines of your bedroom. In 1958, Jan Oort became the first to map the galaxy, by assessing the strength of neutral atomic hydrogen gas, a widespread component of the Milky Way. Pohl created his map using a kinetic model of the galaxy's gas flow, which was developed by Peter Engelmeier of the University of Zurich and Nicolai Bissantz of Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany, based on infrared data collected by a NASA satellite. Unlike visible light, infrared light penetrates dust clouds, so it provided Engelmeier and Bissantz with more precise measurements, in turn allowing Pohl to produce a more...
...even need excellent shooting from the line to mount its comeback—it only made 62 percent of its free-throw shots for the game—as the pure advantage in quantity proved to be enough to squeak by the hot-shooting Harvard team. Harvard freshman forward Peter Boehm—starting his second game in a row as classmate Keith Wright sat out due to an illness—led the long-distance charge, making 7-of-9 three-point attempts on his way to 23 points, a game high and a new career mark...