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...asteroid several miles across crashed onto land then, kicking up enough dust to block out sunlight worldwide for years, leading to reduced agriculture and mass starvation. The same could happen to humans today should a “near-earth object,” or NEO, of that size crash into, say, Massachusetts...
...years ago,” said Brian G. Marsden, the director emeritus of the Minor Planet Center (MPC) at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in a phone interview. And they’ll come eventually: kilometer-wide NEOs strike the earth every few hundred thousand years, with Tunguska-size NEOs striking about once per century...
...largest operas put on at Harvard in recent memory, as well as the biggest production that LHO has put up in its 69 years of existence. Although one of Strauss’ best-known operas, the work is rarely performed because of its imposing size and difficult roles. “It’s a really hard opera to do. We had trouble finding cast members and production staff and with a show of this size, you really need backup,” says Sarah S. Eggleston ’07, who produced the show. Music Director Channing...
...Office allots for “personal expenses.” Currently set at $2,795 per year, “personal expenses” are meant to cover everything not provided by Harvard. This includes items from toothpaste and soap to clothing and textbooks. To determine the size of the stipend, Financial Aid Office uses cost estimates derived from sample budgets and student surveys.The textbook portion of that estimate is in the realm of $1, 250 per year (used books are about $300 less), leaving a student on financial aid the modest sum of around $50 per week...
...online, a model, and I played around with it in my room. Mine was two feet tall, and I wanted [the stage prop] to be eight feet tall. We sketched out all the pieces onto a plotter and then blew it up with a machine we had to [a size] four times as big. We scanned it into the computer and enlarged it times four. Once we put all the pieces together, I realized I wanted it to be bigger." The rest of the set wasn’t easy to build, either. As both set designer and technical director...