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Despite outshooting its opponents by a ratio of nearly two-to-one, the Crimson has only managed to convincingly defeat teams like Yale and Boston College...
Christopher L. Foote, director of undergraduate studies for the economics department, says that his office is not currently considering the possibility of giving professors formal advising responsibilities, largely because of the department's high student-to-faculty ratio...
...obviously a smart man, Shannon--not just because, as your Schwab commercial tells us, you know how to calculate a P/E ratio. You also know that the American public has no idea what it wants out of the Big Game...
...horror of this final wait for the Bottom is what really drains me. As the ratio of time spent studying to time until the Bottom increases without limit, my interest in things unrelated to schoolwork increases proportionally. The smallest curiosity, the dullest barb can hook my attention for hours. As the opportunity cost of stealing away time from studies increases, my irrational desire for shenanigans becomes unbearable. An hour and a half on amihotornot.com playing God of aesthetics. Forty-five minutes re-reading an utterly boring Times story on the profit margins of foreign car manufacturers. An hour faux-drumming...
...reducing engine size for decades. The Eclipse engine, the EJ22, is tiny in airplane terms--85 lbs. (the CJ1 weighs 450 lbs.) and about 14 in. in diameter. But it produces a powerful 770 lbs. of thrust (CJ1: 1,900 lbs.). That's a higher thrust-to-weight ratio than any commercial turbofan engine, and it is the smallest, quietest and lightest jet engine made for use in a civilian aircraft...