Word: rigorousity
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Engineers and environmentalists will watch Solar Impulse with interest, since it offers a rigorous testing platform for extracting maximal power from minimal energy. A recently unveiled prototype, HB-SIA, which will begin flight-testing next year before the larger plane is built for 2011, is a marvel of optimization. Its...
A case could be made that any list of reasons why the Harvard women’s hockey team is undefeated, in first place in the ECAC, and ranked second in the nation has to begin with two words: Christina Kessler.The second-year goaltender has been nearly unbeatable between the...
Cultural decline is a more difficult failing to assess - and address. Traditionally a province of the right, it speaks to the nostalgia of some French for the more rigorous, hierarchical society of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Paradoxically, that starchy era inspired much of France's subsequent cultural vitality...
Martin's tone is not cautious, exactly, but careful. The writing is evocative, unflinching and cool. When he takes a scalpel to his life, what you feel is the precision of the surgeon more than the primal scream of the unanesthetized patient. "My biggest fear," he says, "was that when...
Upon arrival at Harvard, many of these students are not so sure why they’re here. Some burn out completely—free from the watchful eyes of mother and father, they stop attending classes and flop as students. But most of them simply don’t...