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...might to suppress it, class at Harvard is like a cold sore: harmless but hard to miss. Globetrotting friends glibly recount their ski vacations at Vail or winter breaks in Fiji; BMWs line the parking lot between Lowell and the Fly; whole blocking groups oddly come from the same zip code...
...just 7,500 light-years away, Eta Carinae is square in our cosmic ZIP code. An explosion--which could occur soon or just as easily not--would release deadly gamma radiation, but the finely focused beam in which the rays travel means the danger is likely to pass us by. The fireworks, meanwhile, would be "the best star show in the history of modern civilization," says astronomer Mario Livio of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. But after many months, the light would flicker out, and Eta Carinae would be no more. [This article consists of a complex diagram...
...easy-to-open, zip-up bag into which Nigerians dropped their ballots for the presidential election...
...have elected President Umaru Yar'Adua in a landslide, but corruption remains endemic. Rioting resulted in 65 deaths. Crude-oil prices surged worldwide on fears that supplies from Africa's largest oil-producing state would be disrupted. Yar'Adua will face unrest; for starters, he must dump the zip-up bags...
...ZIP codes and other data are accurate predictors of socioeconomic background, then it’s simply misleading to say (as the College does) that admissions are need blind. Need is known. If, on the other hand, the portrait painted by current information is imprecise, then Harvard is falling short in its effort to factor financial hardship into admissions...