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...most precious is Ghadames, an old oasis town 380 miles (611 km) south of Tripoli. Until the 19th century, it was one of the principal trading posts of the Sahara, selling everything from ivory to incense to ostrich eggs. Beginning in the '70s, the locals largely abandoned the old town in favor of a new city with wide roads and air-conditioning; they only began returning a decade ago, after investment from the U.N. Development Programme helped to restore some of Ghadames' former charms...
...coming up with an ingenious theory that gave scientists the tools to explain how two classes of particles, which now appear to be different, were once one and the same. His theory proposes the existence of a single particle responsible for imparting mass to all things - a speck so precious it has come to be known as the "God particle." The scientific term for it is the Higgs boson, and to find it physicists are counting on the most powerful particle accelerator ever constructed: the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the CERN laboratory in Geneva, a 17-mile underground circuit...
...would like to say that I don’t think that that’s an argument for voting in favor of this motion,” Burgard said. “It seems manifestly clear to me that these meetings will become decidedly less precious opportunities if there are fewer people involved in them,” he continued. “One sixth already strikes me as a small quorum for some of the issues that we discuss. One eighth seems exceedingly small.” According to data cited by Stock at yesterday?...
...Especially precious is the assertion that making it harder to drink underage will make undergraduates less safe. Take the G&T’s out of HoCo events, the argument goes, and we’ll all flock to all sorts of unsavory off-campus locales—from final clubs to private houses to the Dudley Co-op—to get trashed, far from the safety net provided by House tutors and the Harvard University Police Department...
...fresh and the songs are more than enough to hold fans over until the inevitable next Bejar release. “Trouble in Dreams” may not match the awe-inspiring splendor of “Rubies,” but Destroyer has still compiled another set of precious gems...