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...dramatically on top of a sharp rock in the forested Carpathian mountains not far from the picturesque medieval Romanian town of Brasov, Bran Castle looks straight out of a fairy tale. But its beauty alone does not explain the fervor of the debate over its ownership. The myth-shrouded castle is also known as Dracula's Castle: according to legend, Vlad "The Impaler" Draculae, a local ruler known for his cruel torture methods (the story goes he liked to have his dinner while watching his opponents painfully die on a stake) used to inhabit Bran Castle. This, however, is merely...
...stellar performance, leading the team with four goals and drawing two ejections.“David Tune played some of the best water polo I’ve ever seen him play,” Connolly said. “As a team, though, we just have to stay sharp all the time. We have the individual pieces, and it’s all a matter of putting it together.”JOHNS HOPKINS 13, HARVARD 11“I’ve never seen a referee call like that before ever,” Tune said.Johns Hopkins...
...recent announcement by Cambridge University and Caltech made scientists take notice. By wedding an innovative electronic light detector to the Hale Telescope at Mount Palomar in California--until 1990, the world's largest--astronomers were able to snap at least one space photo that was literally twice as sharp as a comparable Hubble image and, they bragged, 50,000 times cheaper...
...Lucky Camera, is very simple: the earth's roiling atmosphere acts as a distorting lens, which changes moment by moment as pockets of warmer or cooler air constantly pass in front of a given object. That's why stars twinkle and why ground-based telescopes can be only so sharp. The stars twinkle for the Lucky Camera too. But it snaps 20 images every second, and every so often one of those images, purely by chance, will be taken through a calm patch of sky--much as a broken clock is right twice...
...women’s golf team started its fall season with a convincing win at the Dartmouth Invitational and followed up last weekend with a slightly disappointing Princeton tournament, in which they tied for third place. Although the team was “not as sharp as we wanted to be” at Princeton, its performance is “a good indicator of where we are and what we need to do this year,” Rhoads says. Harvey is looking forward to the Ivy championships in the spring season, because she thinks the Crimson is ready...