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...courses before exploring more discrete pastures: the physical chemistry requirement awaits. While Chem 60, “Foundations of Physical Chemistry,” sounds like it might satisfy the requirement much more easily than Chem 161, “Statistical Thermodynamics,” don’t swoon for the lower course number. Chem 161 is something of a physics-lite course, replete with a handful of physics concentrators. Give it a chance if you can hack a few Taylor expansions, or just appreciate the easy-to-follow full-color lecture handouts. The biological applications will at least...
...CHARGED. Takafumi Horie, 33, founder and former CEO of Livedoor, one of Japan's largest Internet companies; with violating securities law, by a Tokyo district court; in Tokyo. Horie, whose arrest in January sparked a stock swoon that wiped out 80% of his company's market value, pleaded not guilty to allegations that he and other top executives falsified accounts and spread false information to boost share prices. An estimated 2,000 spectators lined up at the courthouse to see the tycoon, whose case has been widely covered in Japan...
...dampen the enthusiasm more than temporarily. According to AMG Data Services, money moved into emerging-market mutual funds and ETFs at the rate of $3 billion to $5 billion a month in the quarter leading up to the correction. Those funds lost money in the May and June swoon, but by the beginning of August, they were again taking in hundreds of millions of dollars a week...
Hearing the voice of Scritti Politti’s Green Gartside for the first time is a little like walking into a room of blonde, smiling sorority sisters—you’re not sure whether to swoon or vomit...
...temporary successor, former Harvard president Derek Bok, is about as different from Summers as it is possible to get. He's one of the world's least gaffe-prone people and a staunchly mainstream liberal, where Summers is liberal in a way that makes the conservatives on the faculty swoon. But Bok seems equally gloomy about the state of Harvard and universities in general...