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Greene may also be the only person on earth who can discuss supersymmetry and the Moulin Rouge soundtrack in the same conversation. In his occasional visits outside the realm of physics, he revels in music and theatre. If he weren’t a physicist, he says his dream would be to perform music, though he’s not convinced he’s very good at it. Such a predisposition towards the performing arts may have taken root because of the influence of Greene’s composer father. While at Oxford, Greene participated in improvisational theater...
Harvard courses have ventured into the realm of mathematical biology, but with mixed success...
Even with her makeup applied, Bundchen was still in the realm of our planet, the kind of woman who turns every head on a SoHo corner. Then, hair in curlers and wearing a robe, she posed for a few Polaroids to check the lighting. The faces she made--mouth open, eyes squinting, lips pouting, chin thrust forward--are lasered into my memory. They broke my heart, just as I had feared...
...meant new purchases, which in turn meant that the engineers who were working on Saddam's missile programs, for which the tubes were in fact destined, had continuing contracts from which to skim money. Kay concluded, "An analyst looks for rational explanations and usually finds them in the technical realm they're used to, but Iraq was almost like a parallel universe. The explanations were driven not by technical reasons but by the moral and personal depravity engendered by the regime. A rational person would look at it one way, and it would be completely wrong, because in this parallel...
According to Kenton Doyle, Harvard Printing and Publishing Service’s technical projects manager, “Something in the realm of eight or eight and a half out of every 10 students wanted the change.” The student demand for an online system should have been obvious, given the frustration that seems to emanate from those painfully long queues. But just as valuable as saving waiting time is the added efficiency that this will allow the Harvard Printing Publishing Service (HPPS). Rather than guessing how many coursepack copies they will need—often having...