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Harvard allowed a 6-3 halftime lead to disappear, but like yesterday, was able to hold on in the final minutes...
...news is that nothing lasts forever. The universe may not disappear, but as time goes by it may get increasingly uncomfortable, and eventually become unlivable. Calculating how and when this will happen is a genuinely dismal science, but not without a certain grim fascination. The classic Big Bang theory, refined over the decades since the astronomer Edwin Hubble discovered the expanding universe in 1929, suggests that cosmic destiny will be decided through a tug-of-war between two opposing forces. One is the expansion of space, which for more than 10 billion years has been carrying galaxies ever farther apart...
...important recyclers of moisture to the atmosphere. In some parts of the Amazon basin, deforestation has reached the point where it is altering precipitation patterns. This is because so much of the moisture entrained by clouds comes from the canopy of the forest below; as large tracts of trees disappear, so do portions of the aqueous reservoir that feeds the local rainmaking machine...
...numbers Greenspan is worried about," says TIME financial writer Daniel Kadlec. "He's worried that people will see their money performing well in the stock market and feel rich - and then they'll go spend what they don't actually have." Granted, spending against paper profits that may disappear with the next NASDAQ nosedive isn't exactly the stuff of sound personal finance, but will American investors' apparent flush of success be enough to spur the Fed chief into do something drastic - like once again raising interest rates? Count on it, says Kadlec. "Consumer spending indices hold...
...concern is that when they are responsible to stock holders instead of depositors that the commitment may disappear," Braude says. "We want to make sure that they are still responsive to the community...