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...joined homecoming weekend as a favorite autumn pastime. Which highlight is No. 1? When he juked an Oregon defender while wearing one shoe? When he stopped on a dime, watched a Fresno State defender fly by and darted across the field for a 50-yd. touchdown? Perhaps his quantum leap over a UCLA cornerback, legs split high in the air à la Michael Jordan, finished with a flip into the end zone like a Hollywood stuntman? Bush, downplaying his theatrics, won't pick a favorite. "It's just like playing football with your friends out in the street," he told...
...petitioned the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences regarding what they call an omission among this year’s winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics, half of which Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics Roy J. Glauber ’45-’46 won for his contributions to quantum optics.Led by Ranjit Nair, the director of the Centre for Philosophy and Foundations of Science in New Delhi, India, the authors of the petition contend that E. C. George Sudarshan, professor of physics at the University of Texas at Austin, should have been recognized along with Glauber.Sudarshan is president...
...chooses to spend his wealth not nurturing selfish dreams and desires but working to ensure that even the poorest people will have their basic medical needs met." Wrote a Seoul reader: "Bono and Bill and Melinda Gates are remarkable individuals with a clear vision of how to make a quantum difference. This is not about giving money but about having an inspirational effect on others." A Kathmandu journalist praised the interview with Bill and Melinda Gates as "one of the best I've ever read. It gave so much insight into the lives of the couple. They send a message...
...military assistance all over the globe. It's a nice idea, but Ward insists that the analogy ignores the deeply shared roots between the U.S. and Britain, to say nothing of long years of close military and bureaucratic cooperation. "For Japan to emulate Britain," says Ward, "would be a quantum leap...
...thing you have to learn, especially at Harvard, is that you absolutely cannot compare yourself to other people. No matter what, you will always find someone that has a better understanding of quantum mechanics, a more even tan, or more shiny hair. If your energy is always focused outwards, there will be nothing left for you: constant self-doubt is, frankly, very tiring...