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...paticular, Murphy will be a force to reckon with since he not only leads the nation in goals per game (32 netters in 32 games), but he also scored 11 out of his 23 league goals at home...
With the discovery of fission," C.P. Snow once wrote, "physicists became, almost overnight, the most important military resource a nation-state could call upon." The unleashing of the awesome destructive power of the atom turned physicists into politicians and politicians into physicists. Scientists were forced to reckon with the repercussions of what they had wrought, while political and military leaders had to comprehend the power they held at their fingertips. In Richard Rhodes' epic and fascinating Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (Simon & Schuster; 731 pages; $32.50), a sequel to his Pulitzer prizewinning The Making of the Atomic...
...reckon about 20 years for a power plant topay itself back," Yeaple says...
That courage will be necessary in the weeks ahead, when all who have watched the carnage unfold will have to reckon with its meaning. It was one thing to imagine the threats from outside, the killers seeping across porous borders, waging war for causes beyond understanding. It was quite another to behold the ring of police cars descending on a pristine white farmhouse nestled in acres of cropland and wonder what hatreds are growing here at home, next door, right in plain sight...
Graduate school is expensive, and teaching undergraduates will not pay for the entire cost of a graduate education. This is simply a financial reality that all graduate students, including those at universities other than Yale, must reckon with. The situation for teaching assistants at Yale may be especially difficult, as union organizers contend. But the particulars of the situation are not central to the main issue: that the teaching assistants should have the right to unionize...