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Welcome to the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, which was administered for the 63rd time in its grueling history on Dec. 7. The Putnam is arguably the most prestigious math contest in the world. It's also a rite of passage for math cognoscenti--think of it as a coming-out party for the next generation of beautiful minds. Do well, and you'll earn the envy of your peers and the inside track on a future Nobel. Do badly and--well, don't feel too bad. John Nash took the test twice and never scored among the top five...
...crowd, watching these actors recombine uniquely, with all of tonight's little gaffes and unexpected epiphanies, at this moment, for their art and your pleasure. At its best a play restores, for a few hours, the age of belief. It gives you the shiver of a sacred rite, in a secular cathedral, and what you experience is communion. Can't get that with a book, where it's just you and the words. Can't get it at the movies, where the performers have been caught in aspic, and the snowman is cryogenically preserved. Only theater traps and enfolds...
It’s getting to be a Crimson rite of passage. Season begins, shy freshman joins team. Season ends, assertive freshman wins Ivy League Rookie of the Year...
...rite of passage that involves jabbing needles into small children is bound to worry more than a few parents. But that doesn't begin to explain why so many moms and dads are convinced--despite mounting scientific evidence to the contrary--that the triple vaccine against measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) causes autism in some youngsters. The latest study exonerating the MMR vaccine comes from Denmark, where investigators looked at the health records of every child born from 1991 through '98, more than 537,000 children. No matter how researchers analyzed the data, there was no difference in the autism...
...restaurateur who kills people and serves them up dumpling-style. The other was period fantasy with lots of simulated sex. In epics such as ?Erotic Ghost Story? and ?Liu Jai: Home for the Intimate Ghosts,? horny demons and succubi preyed on innocent maidens and scholars, and the rite of copulation was a vigorous and elaborate martial art. Until about 1997 - when Britain ceded the colony to Mainland China, and the helium coincidentally seeped out of the cinematic balloon - Cat III films often played to good business in Asian theaters and were fast rentals in video stores around the world...