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With a total of eight medals, four gold, the most hopeful U.S. team had the smallest yield in twelve years. But if the numbers were dim, the moments were bright, and the attitude of the least eminent athletes from the quietest sports added to that. "Up in the air, I was ecstatic, I could tell I had a good jump," cried Jeff Hastings of the U.S., still aloft after finishing fourth in the 90-meter jump. According to their own scale of accomplishments, people doing their best rejoiced. There was enough happiness in the Olympics. No need to want anything...
...With the smallest squad on hand, the Harvard men's gymnastics squad finished sixth in the Ivy League men's Gymanstics Championships over the weekend at Dartmouth. Cornell easily won the title racking up 193.15 points...
...digit number, the largest ever to be subjected to such numerical dissection. Their triumph is more than an intellectual exercise. It could have far-flung repercussions for national security. As anyone who has ever passed through intermediate algebra knows (or once knew), factoring means breaking a number into its smallest whole-number multiplicands greater than 1. For example, 3 and 5 are the only such factors of 15. But as numbers get larger, factoring them becomes increasingly difficult. Until recently, mathematicians despaired of factoring any number above 50 digits. They calculated that it would take the fastest computer, performing...
Although the library recently doubled its shelf space for rare books, the collection is the smallest at Harvard. Other gems include the travel logs of explorers like Captain James Cook and 19th century plans of archaeological excavation sites...
With only eight employees, the smallest but probably the most innovative of the three branches is the video services division...