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...mission in Nepal has reported a surge in clashes between opposition groups. The clashes are expected to rise in the upcoming days. If any of the losing major political parties adopts a bad loser face and refuses to accept the mandate of the people the country may erupt into chaos once again. Let’s hope the Nepalese have learned from their past experiences and news headlines from around the world.Samad Khurram ’09 is a government concentrator in Winthrop House. His column appears on alternate Tuesdays...
Scientists hope that clearer data will reveal information about why the geysers formed. The leading theory is that Saturn's gravitational pull puts stresses on the moon, causing the fissures from which the plumes erupt. "Enceladus' orbit around Saturn is eccentric," Mitchell says. It's just enough off of circular that the effect of gravity on the moon is different from one point to another, and different from the planet's other moons. "That difference in the tug would be enough to cause the body to distort differently as it goes around Saturn." The friction created when sides...
...Crimson does little in the last minute of the period, and the Lynah faithful erupt into a frenzy as the Big Red kills off all but seven seconds of the Harvard power play. Donato has to be furious...
...from Indonesia's Bandung Institute of Technology came up with a more novel idea: dropping thousands of concrete balls, linked with chains like a string of pearls, into the Big Hole. The idea was to bleed off pressure inside the volcano slowly enough so that Lusi wouldn't simply erupt elsewhere - or shoot the concrete balls back out like a cannon. Satria Bijaksana, one of the Bandung scientists who came up with the idea, says that the balls reduced the mud's flow temporarily. But the project was abandoned last March when a new government team took over management...
...Going with the Flow"] Lusi may, in fact, be unstoppable. In 1979, the oil company Shell set off a similar eruption while drilling off the shore of Brunei. That mudflow took 20 years and 20 relief wells to halt, according to Mark Tingay, a geologist at the University of Adelaide in Australia. Lusi may eventually choke itself as mud clogs its interior plumbing. But if left to die on its own, Davies estimates that it could continue to erupt for years, and perhaps even decades. Hardi Prasetyo, deputy head of the new government team in charge of Lusi, says that...