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Administration offices take up Mass. Hall's first two floors, and 24 students live on the upper two floors in the smallest dorm in Harvard Yard...
...category of guns that constitutes only 1% of the firearms owned by the American public. Yet the bill's passage represents the second defeat in six months for a seemingly bulletproof gun-control lobby, which, spearheaded by the National Rifle Association, has managed for years to thwart even the smallest restrictions on ownership of guns. At the same time, the House vote is a victory for thousands of law-enforcement groups and grass-roots advocates, who may now be emboldened to open a new and bigger front in the battle for gun control. The House bill, similar to a provision...
After a 17-year search, scientists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago report that they may have confirmed the existence of the sixth -- and last -- of the quarks, ghostly particles that are the smallest units of matter. Dubbed a top quark, the elusive particle weighs as much as a gold atom; it enjoyed a brief reign about a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang. If the finding is confirmed, scientists will have validated three decades' worth of work that gave rise to the so-called Standard Model of particle physics...
...rise comprises a 5.4 percent hike in total student costs, the smallest rate of increase in more than 20 years, according to a University press release...
Even as Congress mulls ways to reform the $1 trillion American health-care system, the nation's health sector, through the likes of Rick Scott, is rapidly reforming itself. Health inflation, for example, has slowed dramatically. Medical costs rose just 5.3% last year, the smallest increase in 20 years -- largely because enrollment in managed-care plans, which seek to curb wasteful treatment, is growing so quickly. More than half of all American workers are enrolled in such health plans, up from 27% in 1988. Most striking, more than a third of companies offering health benefits to their workers actually reduced...