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...football season, for example, the field never completely recovered from the season opener against Holy Cross, which was played at the tail end of a hurricane. Sullivan added that the increased popularity of synthetic surfaces at both the professional and college levels bolstered the case for the switch. In the Ivy League, in particular, several schools have recently shifted to artificial turf, including Dartmouth and Princeton this offseason. LET THERE BE LIGHTThe addition of lights to the stadium will allow for its use until as late as 11 p.m., Scalise says. This year’s Harvard-Yale game almost...
...takes longer showers because the shower is the last place he can think and the one place he isn't hounded by his BlackBerry, cell phone and 24/7 news on TV. Apart from wasting a precious commodity (water), it would appear he's never heard of the off switch. Margaret Callow Courbevoie, France Above the Law? While I believe that presidential wiretapping for political reasons is wrong, the National Security Agency (NSA) can read my e-mail and listen to my phone conversations all day long if it will help them find the bad guys...
...depends on how and when the genes are turned on by a segment of DNA that acts like a switch. Fish have a version of that switch too. For example, Zebrafish (ray-finned fish that split off from the lineage that led to lobe-fins early in the Devonian) have only part of the sequence, whereas coelacanths (lobe-fins closely related to lungfish) have a lot more of it. And the fishapod, presumably, had even more...
Religion 1529 captured the attention of the Harvard community and became one of the most popular classes of the semester. The course had to switch lecture halls four times before finding a room large enough to accommodate over 600 students...
...Capitol Hill last week, it was almost as if the two parties had decided to switch roles. At a press briefing, House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer was declaring, "Republicans don't have an agenda," a critique Republicans usually hurl at Democrats. The next day Hoyer and other Democrats from the Senate and House, along with state governors, got together to announce the party's unified plan for improving America's national security...