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...People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) announced a $1 million prize for the commercial development of in vitro meat—meat that is grown from stem cells in a laboratory. Of course, offering prize money to entice entrepreneurs is not a novel idea. The Ansari X prize, eventually awarded to Space Ship One, provided $10 million to develop private space flight. The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded prizes to develop autonomous ground vehicles. Even Google has offered a $30 million Lunar X prize for the first privately funded group...
Continuing with its senior theme, Yale will present a formidable opponent at the faceoff X in the form of senior midfielder Gregory Duboff, who has won over 60 percent of his faceoffs this season...
...junior Nick Smith and freshmen Andrew Parchman and Christian Oberbeck will have its hands full. The three midfielders had a strong showing last weekend, winning 15-of-21, and have come on strong in the last few games, meaning it will be anyone’s ball at the X...
...rather, to re-coin it. Apparently, according to The Hitched Chick’s Guide to Modern Marriage, a 2001 Oppenheimer Funds survey found that 54 percent of Generation X women “say they’re more likely to acquire thirty pairs of shoes before saving $30,000 in retirement assets.” The press release for the survey announced that “Young Women Show Signs of Carrie Bradshaw Syndrome.” My definition has nothing to do with shoes...
Cherry Blossom, Hairy Debbie, Christina and Miss Patience hit the stage. They enthusiastically belt out the lyrics to “Lady Marmalade.” It is only the large black X on your hand and curious smell wafting over from the Science Center that make you remember you’re at the Queen’s Head Pub for the BGLTSA Drag Night. The four (lip-syncing) singers are, respectively, BGLTSA board members Marco Chan ’11, Brandon T. Perkovich ’11, Christopher L. Turner ’11, and James P. Alexander...