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...data from the accelerator can be analyzed. He has his professional reasons for wanting to see his theory confirmed. For the rest of us, solid proof of the Higgs boson would provide a cosmic solace: that beauty and unity exist at the very foundation of the universe, however rare they sometimes seem in the world...
Botanicals (Assouline) Culling from the rare-book libraries of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, this volume is filled with more than three centuries of botanical drawings...
...billion every year in subsidies from the federal government.If that seems strange to you, then you’re not alone. A long list of luminaries ranging from Nancy Pelosi to President Bush have tried to do something to cut the wasteful spending. Farm subsidies are one of those rare issues on which everyone from the staunch free market advocate to the ardent proponent of social justice can see eye to eye. A cursory reading of Mankiw’s Principles of Economics will reveal subsidies are, as a general rule, inefficient; they distort incentives and create deadweight loss. While...
...with one of Cornell’s top scorers alone just outside the crease. The junior made an incredible save to preserve the two-goal deficit and give his team a bit of momentum entering the second quarter.“It’s pretty rare that you’d ever see someone break away, have that much time and not score,” Harvard coach John Tillman said. “That’s something that you probably won’t see again.”But the momentum didn’t carry...
...look for a pattern; by the time you find it, you will find a counterargument wrapped around it. Is it the absence of parents, the presence of guns, the cruelty of the culture, the culture of cruelty? School shootings are like plane crashes, rare but riveting for the primitive fears they evoke. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, the executioners of Columbine, gave that fear a face: cold-blooded, calculating, seeking immortality, dancing with the devil. They gave our kids the awful shorthand: You're not going to do a Columbine? Williams' friends asked. They even frisked him that morning before...