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...attach to any contribution. Perelman’s bold claim of having proved Poincaré was taken seriously at its outset only because Perelman was already an established mathematician. Such attention would not be accorded to a novice, whose work would be met with skepticism. This hierarchy is a huge incentive for serious scientists to submit only preprints of the highest caliber and for community denizens not to ruin their reputes by publishing false or misleading information.Each of these projects also has an efficient administrative system with which to stop attempts at sabotage, and it is all but impossible...
...will produce more wealth than the coin itself. Zinc prices are three times higher than they were in 2003, meaning that the metals alone (97.5 percent zinc, 2.5 percent copper) needed to manufacture one penny cost 0.8 cents and rising. Oh yes, there is also the minor trifle that huge demand for these metals encourages the environmentally destructive mining process needed to extract them. Add one more category of people whom the penny hurts: those who’ve ever stood in line. A study has shown that making change with pennies adds three seconds to every cash transaction. Penny...
...kind of excited to be called,” she says. “I think it does make sense that all people should be summoned to jury duty, because you want to represent all spheres of people who live in Massachusetts, and college students are a huge part of the people who live in Massachusetts.”Wu can be summoned in both Maryland and Massachusetts because both states have expanded their sources for names of potential jurors beyond voter registration lists, says Harvard Law School’s Diamond.A DRIVING FACTORAccording to Diamond, states have recognized that...
...people like President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran because of our need for oil. We cannot expect success in dialogue or negotiation when those people have something we desperately need. The only way to attain objectivity in foreign policy is to eliminate the oil factor. Americans need to make huge lifestyle changes (sell-or junk-the Hummer, and tighten your belt) while we develop oil alternatives. Otherwise, we will have only ourselves to blame for the huge number of young lives that will be sacrificed in the name of a killer oil habit we couldn't break. Gerald Witter Norman, Oklahoma...
...Israel” for sparking the Lebanese conflict, audience members questioned whether Israel should shoulder some culpability too. Olivia S. Shabb ’08 asked whether the capture of two Israeli soldiers justified the destruction that followed. “There is nothing that explains or excuses huge loss of life in that manner,” Abercrombie-Winstanley said. Adding that she was not going to “second guess” Israel’s decisions, she blamed Hezbollah for the start of the conflict. She described Israel’s actions as part...