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...rock, by current estimates, was only 50 meters wide, about the length of Annenberg Hall...
...what we saw in the tsunami in the Indian Ocean a few years ago,” said Brian G. Marsden, the director emeritus of the Minor Planet Center (MPC) at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in a phone interview. And they’ll come eventually: kilometer-wide NEOs strike the earth every few hundred thousand years, with Tunguska-size NEOs striking about once per century...
...largely successful in creating an engaging narrative without oversimplifying the issues at hand.While there are sections in which Sen lapses into obtuse academic language, he is generally able to overcome these faults. By relying heavily on personal anecdotes, historical evidence, and literary references, Sen appeals to a wide array of readers with varying backgrounds and levels of familiarity with current events.If there is one failure in Sen’s book, it is that it becomes repetitive.As Sen acknowledges in the preface, “Idenity and Violence” began as a series of lectures that he presented...
...Green for the third time this year. “I think in a way it undermines the efforts of the players and what the team has done,” said co-captain Julie Chu of the intra-conference considerations.Despite the draw, the Crimson sees it as a wide-open tournament and will look to use the full complement of its experienced roster to overcome the defending champion Badgers. “This is the first year that there is so much parity [in the rankings],” Stone said. “It doesn?...
...choosing not to stock the book (many of whom are making that decision under strong pressure from their communities) are very decidedly in the minority. Far more significant is the fact that the book did, as Kamdem notes, win the Newbery Medal. That honor will guarantee strong sales and wide attention for author Susan Patron’s novel...