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Here, perhaps, is where the reality of educational policy at Harvard seems to mirror the Expos program's symbolic place at the bottom of the Faculty totem pole...
Paul C.W. Chu is science's version of a champion pole vaulter. Every time he smashes a world record, he just puts the bar a bit higher and goes at it again. It's not just that he's never satisfied with himself; he also knows his many competitors won't let the record stand. What Chu, a University of Houston physicist, and his rivals keep pushing higher and higher is the temperature at % which it's possible to create superconductors --those almost magical materials that allow electricity to flow through them with no resistance whatsoever. When scientists...
...research community six years ago by showing that a compound containing the exotic element yttrium could become a superconductor at 98 degrees on the Kelvin scale favored by physicists (that's a not-so-balmy -283 degreesF). That record, broken repeatedly, is now as outdated as the 19-foot pole vault, and last month the contest heated up again. First Chu announced in the journal Nature that a mercury-based compound could superconduct at 153 degreesK (-184 degreesF), a startling 20 degrees higher than the old standard. He got that result by subjecting the material to enormous pressure -- the sort...
...hypnotic Chinese pole act, for which the circus is justly renowned, 16 acrobats in swirled leotards scramble up, down and around a set of four poles like a collection of futuristic monkeys. Ann Bernard and Helene Lemay deliver another excellent set with their dance, reminiscent of groundstomping Spanish flamenco. Dressed in flaming scarlet leotards and mean-looking red high-heeled boots, and yielding gaucho's hunting weapons called boleadoras (a rope with a wooden ball fastened on the end), these women tap and swing themselves into a frenzy that resembles a highspeed cuisinart. Their grip on their whirling weaponry...
White says he walked daily around the bush with a magnetometer on his chest and an eight-foot aluminum pole in his hand and took photo samples of the ground which he then examined in the village...