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...addressed now, such as increased tutor presence and restructuring of Senior Common Rooms, will be completed. Budget cuts are unavoidable at this point in time, but hopefully extras like food at House events will be eliminated rather than the House administrative staff that provides vital student services.The eternal quest to improve College social life enjoyed general success this year, with a few big exceptions. September saw the announcement of a new financial initiative in which the College allocated an additional $75,000 to facilitate student group transportation and house formals. Then the College responded to student outcry over...
...field of research, the quest for a unified theory, is no stranger to uncertainty. A unified theory seeks to meld Einstein’s theory of gravity, a framework that’s relevant when things are large, with quantum mechanics, a body of laws that come into play when things are small. We’ve known for half a century that each of these models works well in its own domain, but each also proclaims that the other is defective. Melding the warring antagonists is essential to gaining insight into other great mysteries—what happened...
...ultra-marathon. Now run those 100 miles up a mountain, or in the woods at night, or in a desert so hot that the soles of your shoes begin to melt. Sound like fun? Chris McDougall, author of Born to Run, thinks so. What started as a simple quest to explain a running injury took the former war correspondent deep into the world of ultra-running - and into the world of the Tarahumara, an indigenous race of superrunners who live deep in a canyon in Mexico. McDougall talked to TIME about his experiences and what he thinks about people...
...language Chrysler can understand. The hope that, having poured at least $1 billion into the innovative but commercially suspect Chevy Volt plug-in, GM can pivot into less costly hybrid and high-efficiency diesel technologies. (Perversely, the Administration might hope for $4-a-gallon gasoline to aid that quest...
...fact that only a tiny percentage of skin cells in the study transformed into iPS cells over two months. "How readily or quickly this technology is applied, and whether the efficiency is improved, are things that we will have to wait and see." (Read "Stem-Cell Research: The Quest Resumes...