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...famous political surnames attached to different, usually younger faces. Our President is the son of a former President. The President's brother was re-elected Governor of Florida on Tuesday and is, at least for the moment, more likely to become President one day than anyone else on the planet...
...least the next best thing. The Earth Simulator, the most powerful supercomputer ever built, was designed for a single purpose: to create a virtual twin of our home planet. Before the Earth Simulator arrived, the fastest computer in the world was an American military machine that can perform 7.2 trillion calculations per second. The Earth Simulator runs at more than 35 trillion calculations per second, almost five times faster. In fact, it's as powerful as the next 12 fastest supercomputers in the world put together. Located at a vast, newly built facility in Yokohama, the Earth Simulator...
...together as an album. It feels more like a college student’s mix CD, which is fine, but the flow of the tracks could have been tighter. You may well have most of these songs on MP3. But if you haven’t heard of Phantom Planet, Norah Jones, or The Music, or in fact any of the other bands on this album, it’s definitely worth a listen. MTV has ‘handpicked’ some classic songs from bands that know how to write music...
...Reason”—everyone had decided that they wanted to take him home in a shoebox. Unfortunately, fans will have to settle for the album, Sha Sha, or the album he’s putting together with Weezer, AM Radio and Phantom Planet to benefit Petra Hayden, the singer of That Dog who was injured in a car accident. You can also catch him when he goes on tour with The Strokes later this year. You better hurry because BK mania is catching on—as Dustin S. Hodges ’06 hollered...
...talk, Schor advocated the sustainable alternatives to materialist culture described in her new book Sustainable Planet: Solutions for the Twenty-first Century. These included, among other things, parking the gas-guzzling SUV in the garage and retreating in one’s electric car (or, her favorite, the hydrogen operated $100,000 BMW 750 class) to a safer place of simplicity and community—a place where one spends less than $100 on holiday celebrations, uses green cleaning products, eats organic foods and celebrates a generally happy and fulfilled life. As Schor’s personal bumper sticker reads...