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...Numbers 8,844.38 m Height of Mount Everest, according to new measurements released last week 3.66 m Height difference compared with measurements taken 30 years ago, making the mountain shorter than previously thought...
...Cambridge air is growing colder, the days are getting shorter and the Crimson football season is in full swing. Harvard-Yale football isn’t far away. The Game is at Yale this year, and perennial concerns about student alcohol consumption have again been raised in New Haven. But unlike the hard line that the Boston Police Department (BPD) has adopted in regard to future tailgate planning in Allston, Yale and local police are taking an infinitely more pragmatic and sensible approach towards planning for this year’s festivities in New Haven. According to Yale College Dean...
...More important, the R-Class is as roomy as a suburb, even if the exterior design fails to excite. TIME's backseat test passenger--all 6 ft. 8 in. of him--hadn't had that much room in a car since he was 10 years younger and a foot shorter. And there's an optional rear roof window, adding to the roomy, open feeling. You can even raise the car's height to suit your driving style--sport or comfort--although the difference wasn't all that notable...
Lichten suggested that students keep windows closed when the heat is on, turn off lights, computer monitors, and computers when not being used, and take shorter showers...
...Vries set up a distinction between between long-term and short-term solutions. While infusing democracy into a cultural fabric—a long-range project—will produce lasting result, he said, the introduction of basic freedoms into traditionally terrorist regions will suppress the threat in the shorter term...