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Give your pajama-stagger a little pep. Redden your already blood-shot eyes. It's time for the Coca-Cola Company's latest marketing coup...
...helium surrounded by a thin shell of hot, fusing hydrogen. Over the next few hundred million years, heat from the core will drive surface layers of the sun so far outward that they will cool to about two-thirds of the current 6,000 degrees C surface temperature, and redden. The sun will have become a red giant, so large that it will engulf the planet Mercury, perhaps extending to encompass the orbit of the earth. Even if the swollen sun stretches no farther out than Mercury, however, the heat reaching earth will be from 500 to 1,000 times...
...Redden disagrees about the fundamental reason that low-income students don't apply. "A lot of people at my school--even possible candidates--didn't bother to apply because Harvard has that stereotype: white, elite and prep school...
...Redden believes these stereotypes are largely true. "I see a lot of white people that went to prep school," he says. "I see a lot of money...
...When Von Redden went home for the first time this Thanksgiving, he was shocked by a cool reception. "So many a friends accused me of being preppy. I thought that was absurd. Me, preppy?" he asks incredulously...