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...thick of a challenging part of its schedule, Harvard faced off against yet another rival Saturday night at the Bright Hockey Center, coming out on top after co-captain Mike Taylor’s shorthanded goal halfway through the third period...
...should not be surprised by such ambivalence. Tradition is a dangerous word in progressive circles like this University. Especially at Harvard, tradition connotes racism, sexism, and elitism—oak-paneled back rooms filled with the heavy bouquet of brandy and thick swirls of cigar smoke, and other such ghastly images...
...type of dim red star known as an M-dwarf, only about a hundredth as bright as the sun. During the 1990s, sky surveys revealed that these puny stars are as thick as ants at a picnic, accounting for up to 70% of all the stars in the Milky Way. Because an M-dwarf is so faint, its habitable zone is much smaller, so any planet that falls within that zone would be much closer to it than Earth is to the sun. And that, says Harvard astronomer David Charbonneau, gives planet hunters a huge advantage. "Basically," he says...
...with a small ground incident," cut it up and reassembled it in Dwarka, a fast-growing neighborhood of weed-infested sidewalks and burgeoning middle-class aspirations. Because space is limited, the plane has been cut down to about two-thirds its normal length and is held in place by thick concrete pillars. Inside, Gupta replaced the bulkhead between the coach and business cabins with a wooden wall so he could mount an air conditioner to cool the cabin in New Delhi's oppressive summer heat...
...Given how much ink has been spilled over the movie in the 25 years since its initial release (including two books of academic essays, a thick tome about the war between Scott, Ford, and Warner Bros., and a monograph from the British Film Institute), it seems all too obvious to point out that “Blade Runner” is one of the most visually astonishing films of all time...