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...SILVER LINING Boeing's loss of the aerial-tanker contract to a partly foreign rival may show that defense spending is about more than hometown pork for U.S. companies. Critics say Boeing approached the contract bid with a sense of entitlement; in a global market, this may be a needed wake-up call...
...engineering challenge, but having already sunk $250,000 of his own money into SunNight, Bent didn't have much left over for research and development. "I could have hired 10 engineers and put them in a lab and had them figure it out," says Bent, an intense, silver-haired ex-Marine. "But that's too expensive...
...that senior Jordan Weitzen was out of commission due to a concussion. Weitzen was struck in the head by a ball in practice coming from an awkward angle. Freshman Dan Medina and junior Jeff Nathan both stepped up to fill in for the missing Weitzen. “The silver lining in one of your starters going down is that you get to see that your bench players can come in and do a great job filling in for him,” senior Brian Rapp said. Nathan nailed seven total kills for the weekend, contributing to the Crimson?...
...seven fencers, because I’d had trouble with a couple of those fencers from the region this year. It was good to turn that around before the championship itself.” The medaling continued in the foil, where junior co-captain Kai Itameri-Kinter notched the silver medal, falling to Columbia’s Kurt Getz. Teammate and sophomore Long Ouyang rounded out the top 10, and rookie Hao Meng ended up 19th of 30. “Kai has been a solid, great leader for us all three years at Harvard,” Crimson coach...
There's nothing new about cloud-seeding, which has been around since the 1940s. Scientists at General Electric discovered that dropping dry ice into a cloud could help droplets too small to fall freeze into tiny clumps, forming heavier drops. Today weather modifiers often use silver iodide to create a similar effect...