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...information about the past can be gained by examining meteorites, Marvin says. Since cosmic rays continually bombard meteors in space, researchers can determine the age of meteors by using radioactive isotope dating techniques. This dating method allows scientists to infer what conditions prevailed when the sun and earth were formed, Marvin says...
...decision to keep the class small, intimate and closed to the press will certainly create a good forum for free, candid discussion. But more broadly, Lee's method of restricting the class and the exclusive attitude he displayed toward students on Friday makes a mockery of the University's diversity creed...
...predict how people will react to it," Rosenbury added. "A lot of people are satisfied with using [male] condoms as a method of birth control and of protection, and people are resistant to change. But it is innovative and people like to try things at least once...
...there's a no-muss new method: using a $3 million combination of industrial-grade lasers, you can vaporize the skin right off the potatoes as they fly through a funnel at the rate of 1,800 a minute. This laser surgery for spuds, designed by researchers at Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, works even better on tomatoes, a key commodity for catsup-making Heinz, which owns the still experimental technology. Ore-Ida won't update its recipe for peeling potatoes until the price of lasers, already declining, drops even more. Any commercial use of laser peeling is at least...
Under the system used last fall, approximately 80 percent of the students received their first or second choice of class meeting times. Glenshaw said he hopes that the new method will have a higher rate of success than the first-come, first-serve system...