Different teams do this over and over, with the debris littering vans. It’s all about trying to get good statistics on how strong the typical hailstone is. On this night, Gaimmanco and colleagues are ...

A 27-year-old man was shot early Friday while confronting a group of suspects attempting to break into his vehicle in the South Loop, Chicago police said.

Statistically, they're right. While Harvard accepts about 3% to 5% of applicants, the top IITs admit less than 0.2%, a competition so fierce it borders on the impossible, according to The Economist.