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...Crimson football has lived up to its standing as the preseason favorite in the Ivy League. On a two-game win streak, Harvard is proving its offensive prowess and defensive coordination. But the real test will come tomorrow, when the Crimson will reveal whether or not they will be the leaders of the Ivy League...
...short lived: a helium leak only nine days after the LHC was switched on led to an explosion that postponed data collection along with the careers of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows an ocean away—including several at Harvard. In the next few months, researchers plan to test the LHC a second time, in the hope that their years of hard work will finally help unravel some of the mysteries of the universe...
...because Schmill said “the reality is that the application is not a writing test,” short answers serve the admissions office’s purpose better...
...Even the singular tangible accomplishment, the U.N. resolution, may not fully come to pass, as elements must be ratified by member states. The last time the U.S. tried to pass the nuclear-test-ban treaty, under President Bill Clinton, the then obscure junior Senator from Arizona, Jon Kyl, launched a successful effort to undermine passage. Now Kyl is the No. 2 Republican in the Senate and more powerful than ever...
...other big question is whether Venezuela itself will really pursue a nuclear-energy program. Like oil-rich Iran, it's hardly in urgent need of nuclear power: Venezuela has the western hemisphere's largest crude reserves, and 75% of its electricity is hydro-generated. It abandoned its one test nuclear reactor 15 years ago. Still, Chávez says the country needs alternatives, and has struck a deal to receive nuclear-fuel-technology aid from Russia, Venezuela's top arms supplier. "We're not going to make an atomic bomb," Chávez said after announcing the Russia agreement...