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While scientists estimate that approximately one half-ton of meteorites falls to Earth every year, most of this matter is not recoverable. Meteorites can be found with relative ease, however, on the snow and ice of Antarctica, leading geologists like Marvin to travel there in search of samples...
College campus contains the components necessary to produce effective social and political activism--student groups. And we have a ton of them. Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), the House and Neighborhood Development program (HAND), Citystep, the Harvard Democrats and Republicans, Harvard for Harkin, Students for Clinton, Students for Kerrey, even Students for Agran. You get the picture...
Like Harvard, RPI lost a ton of players to graduation last year, but the Engineers have not managed to rebound as nicely as the Crimson...
...says Times Square has lost its famous gaudy sparkle? At 11:53 p.m. on New Year's Eve, Coca-Cola flipped on the switch to launch its contribution to Broadway's born-again glitz: a $3 million, 55-ton billboard featuring a four- story Coke bottle made of fiber glass. A high-tech version of the Coke sign that has reigned in various Times Square locations for 75 years, the billboard contains a mile of neon tubing, 60 miles of optical fiber and more than 13,000 incandescent light bulbs. Controlled by a robotic animation system, the giant bottle pops...
Pound for pound, Macaulay Culkin is the biggest star in Hollywood. Weighing in at a ton less than Arnold Schwarzenegger, the 11-year-old nevertheless is in possession of one of the prized titles of the business: Home Alone, the third highest grossing movie of all time. (Only E.T. and Star Wars have made more money.) The 1990 film has transformed him from a precocious if mischievous New York City child actor into a heavyweight pop icon -- with the negotiating clout to match. And at the moment, no one dares...