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...PRESENT DAY Luckily, we have better foreknowledge of what's headed for Earth than the dinosaurs did. "Asteroids won't change much in the next 1,000 years," Bottke says. So we're safe...
...When Stuart Gordon, who directed the smartly ghoulish Re-Animator a couple decades ago, steps onstage to present his new film Stuck - a melodrama about a young woman who crashes into a pedestrian, then leaves the injured man lodged halfway through her windshield like a giant hood ornament - the mob goes appreciatively nuts. And when Gordon notes solemnly that "Every seven minutes there is a fatal car crash," someone applauds...
...highly readable new biography, Machiavelli, Ross King paints a more complete picture of Florence's most misunderstood thinker and his tumultuous times. King's breezy narrative doesn't spare Machiavelli, depicting him as an intellectual who loved prostitutes as much as philosophy. But it does present the fresh and sympathetic hypothesis that Machiavelli may not, in fact, have been so Machiavellian...
Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd—along with representatives from FAS Computer Support, University Information Systems, and Facilities Management and Operations—met with Castine and Uundergraduate Council (UC) Vice President Matthew L. Sundquist ’09 several weeks ago. Also present at the meeting was an outside technical consultant hired by the school...
...bigger dose of diplomacy than he did last year in Regensberg. He had a chance during an address last Friday to Vienna-based diplomats to lay out his broad vision of world affairs, but he chose not to take it. With key figures at the International Atomic Energy Agency present, for example, he made no mention of growing tensions between the West and Iran. Still, Benedict may soon get another, even bigger political opportunity: Vatican insiders say that the Pope could speak at the United Nations in New York City next spring. That would be a pilgrimage of an entirely...