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...winner of the DARPA Urban Challenge, Carnegie Mellon's Chevy Tahoe, a.k.a. "Boss," finished 20 minutes ahead of the runner-up, a Passat from Stanford. The Chevy's average speed of 14 m.p.h. (23 km/h) wasn't exactly blazing but was a big improvement over the 2004 race, in which no robots finished at all. The atmosphere was celebratory, though tempered by the uncanniness of watching driverless cars ŕ la Stephen King's Christine, a 1958 Plymouth with a taste for blood. "It's pretty creepy when your vehicle starts beeping and it peels out," says a grad student...
...bright bulbs that have managed to emerge from New Haven. The Nobel Prize for literature’s international trend necessitates that neither Harvard nor Yale has had many literature Nobel laureates, but Harvard’s 1.5 still beats Yale’s singleton. Yale has 1930 prize-winner Sinclair Lewis, while Harvard alum T.S. Eliot ’09 won in 1948. Playwright Eugene O’Neill, who took the honors in 1936, attended Harvard for one year before dropping out. Both schools fare far better in terms of Pulitzer prize-winning alumni. Two-time Pulitzer winner...
...been up as high, but we haven’t run this fast in years.”Iona won the men’s team event by taking the third, fourth, and fifth spots on the way to scoring just 37 points. Providence finished second, paced by individual winner Max Smith, who finished in 29:58.75 and was the only runner to crack the 30-minute mark.On the women’s side, Richardson led the team by finishing 22nd in 21:25.45, the second-fastest time by a freshman in the race. Classmate Jamie Olson finished 35th...
Mailer, the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner who helped found the creative nonfiction style known as New Journalism, died of acute renal failure on Saturday...
...Berg dropped it. Junior Mike Fucito took advantage of the mistake and rushed forward to collect the loose ball, slotting it into the back of the net. Fucito’s ninth goal of the season gave Harvard a 2-0 advantage and eventually proved to be the game-winner. “It was nice [to score],” Fucito saod. “It’s been a few games. I’ll always take a goal that’s pretty much handed to me like that.” In the final...