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...Somebody gave him a trumpet and he stood up and played 'Ten Thousand Men of Harvard,'" Everett said...
Tomorrow's events include "Thousand-Sticker Extravaganza" from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. outside the science center, a viewing of the A&E biography of Bill Bradley at 6 p.m. in Mather House senior common room, and a poster-making party from 8-11 p.m. in Leverett House junior common room...
...those who entered the race was molecular biologist Martin Citron. In 1997, shortly after he moved from Harvard to Amgen, in Thousand Oaks, Calif., he and his team began a long, painstaking elimination process by inserting active human genes, in strings of 100 at a time, into living bacterial cells. When the team found cells making more amyloid protein than might have been expected, it narrowed the strings to 20 genes and repeated the process. Finally, the Amgen team zeroed in on the single gene responsible for producing the extra amyloid. Having found the culprit, the researchers went...
Although they're not certain what is causing the blasts, astronomers attending last week's conference have some ideas. When ordinary stars burn out, they may become neutron stars, dense bodies with gravity fields so powerful that a marshmallow falling into one would release as much energy as a thousand hydrogen bombs. If two of these bodies began orbiting each other, they would ultimately collide, leading to titanic gamma-ray blasts. Other researchers believe the bursts are due to especially large supernovas, great stellar outbursts called hypernovas...
...looking ahead to next year, the big news in the literature-to-film-genre will be the movie translation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, which began filming last month. Spread out over more than a thousand pages in three volumes, the book is notoriously difficult to film, the last attempt being Ralph Bakshi's horrid 1978 cartoon. How will director Peter Jackson satisfy the book's millions of fans? The fact is, he won't. But perhaps he can at least satisfy himself, and give the world an excellent version of one person's view...