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...concrete operations” was creating a noise loud enough to wake the dead. The relentless pounding was giving me a headache, and could apparently be heard as far away as Dunster and Mather; one student described it as reminiscent of the scene in Jurassic Park where the T-Rex slams his feet and water in the glass shakes. For anyone who had heard the noise it was unforgettable; for anyone who hadn’t, it was unimaginable.When I agreed to move into Leverett G tower last spring, I knew there would be construction. For months I dealt silently...
...escaping ? RTG - Powers the craft with a tiny amount of plutonium. Because the probe will travel so far from the sun, solar power was not an option ? LORRI - A high-resolution telescope and camera capable of detecting features about the size of a football field ? REX - Uses radio waves to analyze the atmosphere and determine night-side temperature ? ALICE - Analyzes ultraviolet light to determine atmospheric composition ? RALPH - Makes color maps of the surfaces of Pluto and Charon and uses infrared measurements to determine surface composition ? SDC - Built by students in Colorado, this instrument will...
...Pring-Wilson left the courtroom, he stuffed a paperback book by detective novelist Rex Stout into his the pocket of his green suit, and he wore a smile on his face...
...final clubs by the Unofficial Guide to Life at Harvard, which featured nothing more than a list of the eight organizations. Noting the apparent absence of a Greek system at Harvard, my father–who attended University of Texas at Austin–said, “Hey, Rex. These look like a pretty good deal. You should consider joining.” It seemed like reasonable advice. After all, my dad had been an Alpha Tau Omega in college and had enjoyed his fraternity days immensely. Coming from my background, joining an all-male social club seemed natural...
...Park -- that material from blood cells found in the thorax of a prehistoric fly might be cloned to re-create a living dinosaur -- was echoed eerily in the science journals. Not only did scientists extract bits of DNA from the bone marrow of a 65 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex fossil, but they also recovered intact DNA from an insect trapped in amber back in the Mesozoic era, 130 million years...