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When asked why he has a .plan, Aaron Y. Mandel '97 (e-mail: amandel@fas) answers, "For essentially the same reason as I'd rather wear a t-shirt from a concert or convention or other nifty thing than a plain one. People get a kick out of seeing their favorite author quoted in someone else's .plan, which is probably at the back of many minds when .plans are written." Mandel's current .plan is a collage of sorts containing huge blocks of "obscure" song lyrics and quotes of things that have been said to him "which...
...right value, then cosmologists can keep inflation. The cosmos would have started out in a long period described by scientists as "loitering" or "coasting," providing stars and galaxies with ample time to form. "Then," says Sandra Faber, Primack's Santa Cruz colleague, "suddenly the cosmological constant would kick in, gunning the expansion, making it faster." Measuring a large Hubble Constant and an apparently low age today, in other words, wouldn't be a reliable indicator of what was going on earlier in the universe's lifetime. Theorists might hate Einstein's abandoned child, but, says John Huchra, an astronomer...
...month, the separatist Parti Québécois (PQ) government of Quebec launched 18 commissions to drum up public support for sovereignty. In what was to have been an explosive first month, the commissions have proven to be the latest flop in a series of failed attempts to kick-start nationalist passions. Only 38.5 percent of Quebecers in a recent survey indicated that they were "paying a lot or some attention" to the commissions. One source reported that in the midst of "many tough questions" on separation, the commissions produced "few clear answers." Support for sovereignty hovers at around...
...presence of frozen yogurt in the Curriercommunity, however, has had some negativeconsequences. In some cases, pride has turndedinto jealous territoriality. One tutor complainsthat other Quad residents come to Currier Housejust for dessert. "Let's kick them out!" hegrumbles, "or at least charge them a dollar...
...parents get a kick out of seeing me in the paper," said Jagsi, who was featured as one of Glamour magazine's top 10 college women in the fall...