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During the meeting, Lewis also said that largeblocking group sizes lead to greater fluctuationsin a House's gender ratio from year to year...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: College Releases Blocking Group Data | 4/21/1999 | See Source »

...that moment Christ formed the holy Church which has continued for 20 centuries. The Catholic Church is built upon sacred scripture and tradition, helping breathe life into the worlds of faith and action alike. Today, it is led by Pope John Paul II, whose most recent encyclical, "Fides ed Ratio" (faith and reason), speaks clearly to the rapidly accelerating pace of information transfer and change that "can leave especially the younger generation, to whom the future belongs and on whom it depends, with a sense that they have no valid points of reference." Where is the reason, the rationale upon...

Author: By Christa M. Franklin, | Title: The Circle of Faith | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

...official: I m a really bad feminist. Odd, since I sincerely believe in the equality of sexes. This equality still fails to show up in the gender ratio of faculty or even of section assholes. Feminism does and did a lot to banish such inequality (understatement) and I m grateful that I can pursue whatever catches my fancyaexcept, considering my petite stature, maybe wrestling or basketball. Not to say that there aren t women who can do those pretty darn well...

Author: By Yo-el Ju, | Title: Confessions | 4/8/1999 | See Source »

Dell, as well as Compaq and IBM, is still a powerful brand in an indispensable industry, but then again, Sony is a leading brand in an industry in which pricing and growth rates were once comparable to the PC business: television sets. Today Dell trades at a price/earnings ratio of 75; Sony trades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PC Makers Get Crunched | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...student and professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and later at Clark, Goddard tried to figure out just how. Fooling around with the arithmetic of propulsion, he calculated the energy-to-weight ratio of various fuels. Fooling around with airtight chambers, he found that a rocket could indeed fly in a vacuum, thanks to Newton's laws of action and reaction. Fooling around with basic chemistry, he learned, most important, that if he hoped to launch a missile very far, he could never do it with the poor black powder that had long been the stuff of rocketry. Instead, he would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rocket Scientist ROBERT GODDARD | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

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