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Posner considers a slew of world-ending scenarios with REM-style enthusiasm. He reports one scientist’s estimate that there’s a 1 in 100,000 chance of an asteroid smashing earth in any given year and killing a billion people. Alternatively, Posner speculates, “superintelligent robots” might turn on their human creators and “kill us, put us in zoos, or enslave...
...fact, the Crimson has already downed a slew of top-15 teams (then-No. 10 Boston University, then-No. 10 Vermont, then-No. 11 Maine, and then-No. 9 Cornell), but Crimson coach Ted Donato ’91 still deems tonight’s matchup “what may be our biggest game for the rest of the year as far as the NCAA tournament goes...
Dates may have been formal then, but they were also more frequent and less serious. Phil dated “a slew of girls,” although not many Quad residents, in his first two years at Harvard and felt he never got to know any of them well...
BOSTON-—It’s easy to say that the No. 10 Harvard men’s hockey team is impressive this year, that it has felled a slew of formidable opponents, and that, all in all, this is a season of which the Crimson can be proud. Nevertheless, it remains impossible to say anything that will lessen the sting of last night’s double-overtime Beanpot defeat...
...Ever feel like a tour guide is phoning it in? That may not be a bad thing, judging from a slew of new cell-phone tour services popping up across the U.S. At Talking Street (talkingstreet.com), which focuses on the country's major East Coast cities, you download a map of a tour online then dial in at indicated locations to hear historical stories and the scoop on local haunts from celebs with a connection to the place. Native New Yorker Sigourney Weaver escorts you through Lower Manhattan, for example, while rocker Steven Tyler takes you around Boston. Each tour...