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Another factor is the size of the Faculty relative to the size of the student body. Compared with the faculty-student ratios at other front-rank universities nationwide, Buell says, Harvard's Faculty seem stretched thin...
Another factor is the size of the Faculty relative to the size of the student body. Compared with the faculty-student ratios at other front-rank universities nationwide, Buell says, Harvard's Faculty seem stretched thin...
...need to recharge their batteries forces them to surface every day or so, when they become sitting ducks. Nonetheless, Navy planners repeatedly cite the possibility that Iran's three Russian-made Kilo subs could bottle up the mouth of the Persian Gulf in a time of crisis, picking off thin-skinned oil tankers like marksmen at a state fair. But few believe that even this scary scenario would be much more than a 48-hour headache for the Pentagon...
...Dozens of pinprick-size containers are each filled with about 25 nanoliters of liquid, gel or solid and covered with a thin gold film. The chip is then immersed in a liquid containing low concentrations of chloride ions (like those found in human bodily fluids...
...pimps and the audience voyeurs, gazing raptly at one primal scene after another? You'll hoot at the zany antics of Steam Heat and weep over the sweet sentimentality of Mr. Bojangles, but the picture that will stay in your mind longest is the sinister image of a pencil-thin dancer dressed in black, arms held close to his body, with a bowler hat pulled low over his eyes so that nobody can see who he really...