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Once Marvin has collected her samples, she slices them into thin wafers just 30 microns thick to test their optical properties and to perform chemical analyses...
...expected much from the Elis at the beginning of the season. But the Elis are currently in the thick of the ECAC race, and its visit to Harvard will go down as a harbinger of what the Elis have since proven...
...there is a genuine dilemma. Rumors can become so thick and widespread that not to report their existence -- even if they cannot be proved -- becomes a kind of dishonesty. The Washington Post once got in trouble for publishing a rumor without proof it was true, and defended itself editorially on grounds that, well, it's true there was a rumor. Much chortling and indignation at that. But it's not a worthless point. Past profiles of Clinton, in TIME and elsewhere, have reported vague rumors about marital infidelity as exactly that, and rightly...
...killer management as Winning Through Intimidation and Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun were required reading in the executive suite. The practitioners were effective in at least one respect: their massive layoffs, often executed with the finesse of a Marine drill instructor, have left the atmosphere at many firms thick with hostility. "I feel like I'm walking along a geological fault line within U.S. companies," says Robert Rosen, author of a recent book, The Healthy Company. "There is more frustration and tension between employers and their employees than I've ever seen. Mutual cynicism and mistrust seem...
While most of the gender differences uncovered so far seem to fall under the purview of the hypothalamus, researchers have begun noting discrepancies in other parts of the brain as well. For the past nine years, neuroscientists have debated whether the corpus callosum, a thick bundle of nerves that allows the right half of the brain to communicate with the left, is larger in women than in men. If it is, and if size corresponds to function, then the greater crosstalk between the hemispheres might explain enigmatic phenomena like female intuition, which is supposed to accord women greater ability...