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...shower occurs each year when Earth passes through the trail of dust that follows the Tempel-Tuttle comet. Dust from the comet, which orbits the Sun once every 33 years, passing close to the Earth, can burn through our atmosphere at speeds of 160,000 miles per hour...
...trail of a comet passing through the earth’s atmosphere; you get more meteors and a better chance of brighter meteors the closer it gets,” said Samuel M. Meyer ’13, a hopeful astrophysics concentrator...
...from three cantons laid the foundations of the Swiss federation there by taking an oath to resist foreign oppressors. Despite this historical significance, there are no roads anywhere near Rütli. But 700 years later, the Swiss, at long last, opened a hiking trail. Known as the Swiss Path, it meanders for more than 30 km around Lake Uri and through the forests and alpine meadows that lie at the heart of the Swiss soul...
...course, the ideas of John Maynard Keynes are also behind the auto-industry bailouts, new financial regulations and public investments pushed by the Obama Administration. The difference is both in the details and the big picture: not only do specific national economic policies in Europe tend to still trail those of the U.S. on the free-market curve, but there is also a lingering ingrained suspicion about capitalism itself...
...Crimson’s comeback trail ended there. Harvard failed to generate any offensive opportunities throughout the fourth quarter, until Winters drove the ball down the field late in the frame, only to fall short by a matter of inches...