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...northeast continues to get pounded by a weather storm that belongs somewhere in the middle of March rather than the first week of May, the Harvard men’s golf team finished sixth in a 12-team field at the rain-shortened University of Rhode Island spring invitational...
...years, is open to visitors. Einstein resided at Kramgasse 49 in 1905, during his annus mirabilis - the miraculous year in which he devised theories to explain Brownian motion, the photoelectric effect and special relativity (E=mc2). The then 26-year-old described it as the time when "a storm broke loose in my mind." The museum features original furnishings and some turn-of-the-century physics-lab equipment, along with photos of Einstein and copies of his notes and speeches. Tickets are $4. tel: (41-31) 312 0091; www.einstein-bern.ch Britain hosts a touring, hands-on exhibition called "Move over Einstein...
...wife. He had been in a theater fire as a boy, and ever since, he always checked for the exits in an unfamiliar environment. When the planes collided, Heck's brain had the data it needed. He could work on automatic, whereas other people's brains plodded through the storm of new information. "Humans behave much more appropriately when they know what to expect--as do rats," says Cynthia Corbett, a human-factors specialist with the Federal Aviation Administration...
Rock is known for pushing the comedic envelope, but said that he tries to make sure his work isn’t affected by the words of critics. On the press storm that surrounded controversial comments he made in the weeks before his Academy Awards hosting slot, Rock had this to say: “Around Oscar time, I just stopped reading anything...
...long after, the Boston Globe publicized “Harvard’s dirty little secret” in a two-part front-page investigative piece called “Matters of Honor.” The story set off a storm of controversy as other Ivy League officials delighted in publicly mocking the Harvard honors system. The College knew that something had to be done. A series of proposals were eventually approved by the faculty in a unanimous vote...