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DIED. EDWARD KNIPLING, 90, U.S. government entomologist whose 1950s insect-eradication technique, X-ray sterilization of males to prevent offspring, saved U.S. livestock from the plague of the screwworm; in Arlington, Va. Developed with a colleague, the no-insecticide model has since been used successfully against many other insect pests...
...20th century was quite a time for physicists. By the mid-1970s we had in hand the so-called standard model, a theory that accurately describes all the forces and particles we observe in our laboratories and provides a basis for understanding virtually everything else in physical science...
...Unfortunately some of the class' nude model paintings may have been painted over by now. Budding artists and desperate flesh-mongers need not worry, however, as the VES department features nudes in a variety of painting and drawing classes...
...college experience. Perhaps peaking a little late he is intrigued by "hooking up," the title of a forthcoming collection of his essays. Already this year, Wolfe has visited Harvard twice. Is the acclaimed author in the custom-made $5,000 suits planning to use Harvard as a model for his next masterpiece...
...This is why Harvard cannot serve as his model: without Division I basketball or football, there is no culture of manliness at Harvard. This should not come as news to Harvard women, caught between the devil of final clubs and the deep blue sea of Lamont Library. Elsewhere--think Mississippi--campus society puts its finest specimens of testosterone at the top of the pecking order. They are kings of their respective castles, showered with all the attention that would have been appropriate for a victorious army of yore. This phenomenon has its reasons: manliness, according to Tom Wolfe, developed from...