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...problem," admits Mordecai-Mark Mac Low, an astronomer at New York's American Museum of Natural History. Or, rather, it was a problem - but Mac Low and his collaborators may have solved it. In a paper recently submitted to the Astrophysical Journal, they say that the old, Earth-destroying theory was generally accurate but lacked some key details - ones that both reshape theories about how planets form and, oh yes, allow the planet we know best to exist. (See an illustrated history of Earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Theory on Why the Sun Never Swallowed the Earth | 1/10/2010 | See Source »

During a late-afternoon perusal of New York Magazine’s Daily Intel blog, we were amused to find an interesting little “quote” from one of our very own—HBS professor William W. George (better known as simply Bill George). “If you don’t pay them for their performance, you’ll lose them. It's much like professional athletes and movie stars," George had said, supposedly referring (as the blog had initially suggested) to bankers...

Author: By James K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: What Exactly Did Bill George Say? | 1/9/2010 | See Source »

...about “traders," not “bankers"—a fact that would have been made abundantly clear by a cursory glance at the sentence preceding or following the quote. To get the scoop, we called the author of the post, Jessica Pressler of New York Magazine...

Author: By James K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: What Exactly Did Bill George Say? | 1/9/2010 | See Source »

...Opportunes’ plans are not yet quite so solid. “We know we’re going to New York, but we don’t actually know if we have any gigs yet,” Opportunes baritone singer Zachary N. Bernstein ’13 said. “We’ll have fun wherever we end up going...

Author: By Julie R. Barzilay, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Jamming During J-Term | 1/7/2010 | See Source »

...York Times reported on Wednesday that al-Balawi's offer of information on al-Zawahiri was deemed important enough for the local CIA station to alert top officials at the CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., and in the White House. Al-Balawi was taken seriously, and trusted enough to warrant a trip to Khost by the CIA's second-in-command in Afghanistan, an unidentified mother of three, to attend the spy's debriefing at a U.S. base. But al-Balawi, who was allowed onto Forward Operating Base Chapman without a body search, was wearing a suicide belt and blew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIA Bomber Was No Double Agent, Say Jordanians | 1/7/2010 | See Source »

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