The Tech - MIT's Student Newspaper http://tech.mit.edu/img/small-flag.gifThe Techhttp://tech.mit.edu/ http://tech.mit.edu Headlines from The Tech, MIT's Student Newspaper en-us Copyright The Tech 1881-2009 Proton Beams Are Back on Track at Colliderhttp://tech.mit.edu/V129/N56/long1.htmlhttp://tech.mit.edu/V129/N56/long1.htmlBy Dennis Overbye
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Physicists returned to their future on Friday. About 10 p.m. outside Geneva, scientists at CERN, the European Center for Nuclear Research, succeeded in sending beams of protons clockwise around the 17-mile underground magnetic racetrack known as the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s biggest and most expensive physics experiment.]]>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500World and Nation Iran Expanding Effort To Stifle the Oppositionhttp://tech.mit.edu/V129/N56/long2.htmlhttp://tech.mit.edu/V129/N56/long2.htmlBy Robert F. Worth
THE NEW YORK TIMES
After last summer’s disputed presidential election, Iran’s government relied largely on brute force — beatings, arrests and show trials — to stifle the country’s embattled opposition movement.]]>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500World and Nation Autistic Runaway Youth Spent 11 Days On Subwayhttp://tech.mit.edu/V129/N56/long3.htmlhttp://tech.mit.edu/V129/N56/long3.htmlBy Kirk Semple
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Day after day, night after night, Francisco Hernandez Jr., 13 years old, rode the subway. He had an electronic fare card, $10 in his pocket and a bookbag on his lap. As the human tide flowed and ebbed around him, he sat impassively, a gangly boy in glasses and a red hoodie, speaking to no one.]]>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500World and Nation Sounds During Sleep May Aid Memory, Study Sayshttp://tech.mit.edu/V129/N56/long4.htmlhttp://tech.mit.edu/V129/N56/long4.htmlBy Pam Belluck
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Science has never given much credence to claims that you can learn Chinese or French by having the instruction CDs play while you sleep. If any learning happens that way, most scientists say, the language lesson is probably waking the sleeper up, not causing nouns and verbs to seep into a sound-asleep mind.]]>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500World and Nation The Gloves Come Off At Amazon and Wal-Marthttp://tech.mit.edu/V129/N56/long5.htmlhttp://tech.mit.edu/V129/N56/long5.htmlBy Brad Stoneand Stephanie Rosenbloom
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Ali had Frazier. Coke has Pepsi. The Yankees have the Red Sox.]]>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500World and Nation Shorts (left)http://tech.mit.edu/V129/N56/shorts1.htmlhttp://tech.mit.edu/V129/N56/shorts1.htmlBy Anne Eisenberg John M. Broder Keith BradsherThe particles that ferry cholesterol through the bloodstream are known as “bad” or “good”: bad if they deposit cholesterol on vessel walls, potentially clogging them; good if they carry the cholesterol on to the liver for excretion.]]>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500World and Nation Shorts (right)http://tech.mit.edu/V129/N56/shorts2.htmlhttp://tech.mit.edu/V129/N56/shorts2.htmlBy Diana B. Henriques Donald G. Mcneil Jr. Stephanie Rosenbloom Brian StelterBernard Madoff’s enormous Ponzi scheme ended on Dec. 11, 2008, when he was arrested at his Manhattan penthouse. But for some early victims, the date his crime started could matter much more than when it stopped.]]>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500World and Nation Happy Thanksgiving!http://tech.mit.edu/V129/N56/weather.htmlhttp://tech.mit.edu/V129/N56/weather.htmlBy Allison A. Wing
STAFF METEOROLOGIST
Thanksgiving is just a few days away, which means that winter is on the horizon. Thanks to El Niño, the National Weather Service is predicting a warmer-than-average winter across much of the western and central US, but a cooler-than-average winter across the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic.]]>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500World and Nation Guidelines Push Back AgeFor Cervical Cancer Testshttp://tech.mit.edu/V129/N55/long1.htmlhttp://tech.mit.edu/V129/N55/long1.htmlBy Denise Grady
THE NEW YORK TIMES
New guidelines for cervical cancer screening say women should delay their first Pap test until age 21, and be screened less often than recommended in the past.]]>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500World and Nation A Medical Culture Clash of Science and Practicehttp://tech.mit.edu/V129/N55/long2.htmlhttp://tech.mit.edu/V129/N55/long2.htmlBy Kevin Sack
THE NEW YORK TIMES
This week, the science of medicine bumped up against the foundations of American medical consumerism: that more is better, that saving a life is worth any sacrifice, that health care is a birthright.]]>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500World and Nation Senate Bill Covers Fewer Than House Version, Costs Lesshttp://tech.mit.edu/V129/N55/long3.htmlhttp://tech.mit.edu/V129/N55/long3.htmlBy Robert Pear
THE NEW YORK TIMES
The Senate version of health reform legislation would cover 5 million fewer people than a companion bill passed by the House, but it would cost less, in part because Senate Democratic leaders said they believed they had to win support from fiscally conservative members of their party.]]>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500World and Nation U.S. Takes A New Look At Terrorism Air Defenseshttp://tech.mit.edu/V129/N55/long4.htmlhttp://tech.mit.edu/V129/N55/long4.htmlBy Thom Shankerand Eric Schmitt
THE NEW YORK TIMES
The commander of military forces protecting North America has ordered a review of the costly air defenses intended to prevent another Sept. 11-style terrorism attack, an assessment aimed at determining whether the commitment of jet fighters, other aircraft and crews remains justified.]]>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500World and Nation Air Traffic System Fails, Causing Delays in Flight in Eastern U.S.http://tech.mit.edu/V129/N55/long5.htmlhttp://tech.mit.edu/V129/N55/long5.htmlBy Matthew L. Wald
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Flights over much of the eastern United States were delayed Thursday by a predawn failure in a fairly new communications system, which led to the shutdown of a computer that accepts flight plans from the airlines and feeds them to air traffic controllers.]]>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500World and Nation Shorts (left)http://tech.mit.edu/V129/N55/shorts1.htmlhttp://tech.mit.edu/V129/N55/shorts1.htmlBy Tom Keyser Brian Stelterand Bill Carter Stephen Castleand Steven ErlangerEmily Keller, a Watervliet, N.Y., high school senior, has read the four “Twilight” books 28 times.]]>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500World and Nation Shorts (right)http://tech.mit.edu/V129/N55/shorts2.htmlhttp://tech.mit.edu/V129/N55/shorts2.htmlBy Abby Goodnough Alissa J. Rubinand Mark Landler Monica Davey William J. BroadFirst the reviled Yankees won the World Series; now Shake Shack, the New York burger joint, might stake a claim in one of Boston’s most sacred spaces.]]>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500World and Nation