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...Ec10b is placed in U.S. in the World, the department might keep Ec10a out of Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning to prevent crowding out statistics, Miron said...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gen Ed Frustrates Some Disciplines | 5/15/2008 | See Source »

...world scenarios are not new. Wagner filed a similar complaint in 1999 and 2000 to prevent the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory from going online. The collider, which has been functional since 2000, has yet to produce a black hole...

Author: By Steven T. Cupps | Title: The Big Bang | 5/15/2008 | See Source »

...Nick Bostrom, writing in the recent publication of the Technology Review, hypothesizes that the reason humans haven’t heard from intelligent space-faring life is that all of them have been prevented either by a barrier that would prevent them from getting to our stage of development (i.e. conditions needed to start life) or by a barrier that destroyed them before they could begin spreading into space (i.e. they built a LHC). If the barrier is the latter, then humanity could be in store for a bumpy future...

Author: By Steven T. Cupps | Title: The Big Bang | 5/15/2008 | See Source »

...developing Asia than it is in the United States. A brief walk through the streets of smog-ridden Bangalore can leave a healthy individual coughing within a matter of minutes; in fact, many of the residents of the rapidly growing city are forced to wear surgical masks to prevent the inhalation of smog, as they undertake their daily chores...

Author: By Shankar G. Ramaswamy | Title: The Real Inconvenient Truth | 5/15/2008 | See Source »

...speech after his win in North Carolina, when he said, "We can't afford to give John McCain the chance to serve out George Bush's third term." It helps that Bush is at record public disapproval levels, his Arab-Israeli peace process is near dead, his efforts to prevent Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons appear to be going nowhere, and oil prices are soaring beyond his control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind the Bush-Obama Smackfest | 5/15/2008 | See Source »

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