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...offered. He said the details of the Core’s implementation were also left to a committee.In an interview before yesterday’s meeting, Mendelsohn said that professors were ready to move on from a four-year debate marked, at times, by “retreat and sheer exhaustion.”“I think that the Faculty is ready to see something approved,” Mendelsohn said. “My sense is that there is enough general enthusiasm about the new program, and enough confidence that the committee appointed will be qualified...
...regard, the sheer array of opportunities, programs and scholarships available to vets can be more confusing and overwhelming than helpful. The Servicemembers' Readjustment Act of 1944, better known as the Montgomery G.I. Bill, provides for education and retraining; Congress is currently considering a "post-9/11" version of the bill with even greater benefits. The departments of Defense, Labor and Veterans Affairs jointly launched the Transition Assistance Program in 1989, and each branch of the military has since then added its own workshops. States help, too, with internship programs for wounded vets or assistance in launching businesses. Then there...
...traveling display put on by the Harvard College Democrats to remember the troops lost in Iraq (it’s for the larger Iraq Awareness Project). There are over 3,200 red bandanas—each cut by a member of the Dems—to visually illustrate the sheer magnitude of what Iraq has become. This display was originally outside of the Science Center but was relocated because of nasty permit regulations...
...exhausts the elemental fuel in its core and begins to collapse inward. The outer layers blow off in a huge flare we recognize as a supernova while the core becomes more and more compressed, eventually forming the infinitely dense node that is a black hole. In SN 2006gy, the sheer mass of the star produced so much core heat and gamma-ray radiation that it created matter and antimatter particle pairs. This blew the star to bits, leaving no cold core behind...
...would prefer to lop off than talk to. Two weeks later, at an Arab summit, King Abdallah called the American presence in Iraq an "illegal occupation," the same description the Iranians use. In April, King Abdallah reportedly cancelled a visit to Washington and a dinner with Bush out of sheer anger over Iraq...