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...Francisco Giants and the Oakland Athletics were just about to start Game 3 of the 1989 World Series on Oct. 17 when the shaking began. ABC play-by-play announcer Al Michaels managed to tell viewers, "We're having an earth-" before the signal went dead. The temblor was brief - just 15 seconds - but the damage caused by the 6.9-magnitude quake was impressive. It killed 63 people, injured thousands and caused $7 billion worth of damage throughout California's Bay Area, including major destruction to the Oakland Bay Bridge. "It was a good sized shock," says Peter Yanev, chairman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Earthquake Preparedness: Lessons from San Francisco | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

...What attracted me to Harvard was the ability to work with students,” she said. “I thought if I could actually interface with students and tell them about the program’s shortfalls, we could start harvesting new ideas in Washington...

Author: By James K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Obama Aide Joins HKS Belfer Center | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

...message cuts to the chase—and it ends up right in the core of that soft, plump mass called your heart (yes, you have one; we know it's hard to tell sometimes...

Author: By Esther I. Yi | Title: "Miss Your Grandma?" | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

...pray tell, does Physics have issues with...

Author: By James K. Mcauley | Title: Frisbee, Nerds Collide | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

...Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle—which the play itself never quite cognizes. The work suffers from an overabundance of mere observations of the ways human behavior can correspond with anthropomorphic interpretations of QM. This method is inherently problematic; the physics can really only tell us the outcomes of experiments concerning the quantum world. At best it allows room to imagine what subatomic particles do, but that has nothing to do with what humans...

Author: By Adam L. Palay, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Keats & Quanta: The Cat Is Dead | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

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