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...noticed that the dark side is not entirely dark. The faint glow rounding out the Moon is earthshine: light from the bright day side of Earth shining on the night side of the Moon. Scientists have studied earthshine for decades - but Langford, along with her colleagues at Melbourne and Princeton Universities, decided it would make a perfect test case for detecting oceans and landmasses on a faraway alien world...
...Harvard’s varsity eight rowed a particularly strong race on Lake Carnegie in Princeton, N.J., beating MIT and Princeton by an impressive margin of more than eight seconds. The Crimson gained a boat-length lead in the first 500 meters of the race, and steadily increased its margins throughout the next 1500 meters, leaving Princeton and MIT to fight it out in its wake...
...settled into a good rhythm, and we were able to move away from MIT and Princeton,” sophomore coxswain Chris Kingston said. “We were expecting Princeton to give us a fast race, but we were able to move ahead early...
...After this weekend’s performance, the Crimson can look forward to next weekend’s upcoming race against Princeton and Yale with confidence. Harvard is currently ranked second in the lightweight league while Princeton holds first, but among such strong crews, rankings are easily transcended...
...perhaps through furlough days—to bring their salaries in line with those of our peer institutions. This academic year, Harvard paid its full professors an average of $192,600, according to the American Association of University Professors. By contrast, Stanford paid its professors $181,900, Princeton paid $180,300, and Yale paid $174,700. Asking our professors to accept the same salaries as their counterparts at Stanford seems fair, especially considering that, just two years ago, the average salary at Harvard was $177,400. The faculty has about 450 full professors, and paying at Stanford levels would save...