Word: semis
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Harvard never even conducted an in-house investigation of what a Cambridge rent control hearing examiner in 1982 called these "terror tactics of eviction." Not one formal admission of negligence from any official at Harvard Real Estate (HRE), Inc., the University's semi-autonomous property management firm, came out of the Trowbridge or Craigie affairs...
Actually, the Harvard Lampoon--a semi-secret social club that publishes parodies on a highly irregular schedule--won't be bringing up any charges against itself. But the elite and selective fraternal order may just take the Kennedy School Lampoon--a new group which has so far published only a send-up of the official K-School program of activities--to court for copyright infringement if the club's incipient humor magazine doesn't give back its name...
...several locations around a track, the particles are either smashed into metallic targets or steered to collide head-on with one another. Most of the new machines opt for the collision technique, which produces more energy. Explains Alvin Tollestrup, a Fermilab physicist: "It's the difference between a semi crashing into a small car and two semis crashing head-on." Some of the tremendous energy of those impacts is fleetingly transformed into strange particles that are thought to have existed in the very first moments of the universe. Before the unstable fragments decay back into energy and more familiar bits...
Freshman Kristin Bland is undefeated so far this season and Kathy Vigna has claimed three straight. Erica Smith--a finalist and semi-finalist in her last two outings--and Cindy Buchsbaum are also forces to be reckoned with...
Richard Hackman, a specialist in organizational behavior, would fill a tenured opening left by Professor of Social Relations Robert F. Bales, who has moved into semi-retirement because of poor health...