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...Leaning Tower of Pisa, simultaneously dropped cannonballs of different sizes and found that they all hit the ground at the same time. He thus convinced the world--and in the years to come, Sir Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein as well--that in a vacuum all objects, regardless of mass, fall at the same speed. Galileo's work went unchallenged until last week, when Purdue University Physics Professor Ephraim Fischbach, three of his graduate students and S.H. Aronson, a physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, reported discerning a previously unknown force that causes objects of different masses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Fifth Force? | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...can’t end homelessness in one city because all you do is create a vacuum,” O’Brien says as he garners a steady stream of spare change from passers...

Author: By Anna M. Friedman and Daniel J. Hemel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: The Big Freeze | 6/9/2005 | See Source »

Space: the final frontier. Night and day, it is the one thing that that all human being share, aside from the approximately 1.4 percent of our genetic material that is common to all humans but not to chimpanzees. Enveloping us all in its vacuum-powered embrace, it is the massive and unwieldy momma of our own mother earth. And now, as advances in technology make the outer limits increasingly accessible (even the Canadians have a space program!), we must all brace ourselves for the impending big bang of twenty-first century consumerism: advertising in outer space...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Space for Rent | 5/25/2005 | See Source »

...baffling the grader or by fencing him but like this: “It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Beating the System | 5/18/2005 | See Source »

...risen. The creation of designer Paul Bonomini, the 7-m-tall humanoid figure - which looks like a menacing mechanical skeleton escaped from some Tim Burton movie - weighs 3 tons and is made of 553 pieces of electrical and electronic waste, including 95 small household appliances (such as vacuum cleaners, toasters and irons), 55 larger consumer items (TVs, video and DVD players, camcorders), 35 pieces of computer and mobile-phone equipment, 12 washing machines, 10 refrigerators and six microwave ovens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Walk Softly, Leave A Small Footprint | 5/1/2005 | See Source »

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