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Monster-movie parables were the Pop Art of the early nuclear age. Japan got its cinematic revenge for the A-bomb with the story of a prehistoric monster (called Gojira at home, Godzilla abroad), its eon-long sleep disturbed by an A-blast, that rises from the depths to stomp on Tokyo. In dozens of sequels, the beast devolved into a toy or a clown. But here, just nine years after Hiroshima, Gojira is a political metaphor that roars majestically to life...
...minute or two carefully flipping, disabling and breaking specific controls and switches, shutting down pumps and operating key valves. It would be a deadly sequence that they had mastered in advance from an accomplice who had probably worked in the control room of the reactor or another plant, maybe abroad. "They'd be trying to cause a loss-of-coolant accident that results in a meltdown," says David Lochbaum, a nuclear engineer who spent 17 years working in reactors. It may sound farfetched, but Lochbaum says causing a reactor catastrophe is really that simple. "It's irreversible once that last...
...other ways, al-Qahtani emerges as an innocent abroad--uneducated, almost from another era. He asks whether the sun revolves around the earth. He wonders about dinosaurs and is told of their history and demise. He confides that he would like to marry someday--apparently not realizing how unlikely that goal...
...also didn’t hurt that they had perhaps their top skipper back, as junior and next year’s captain Vincent Porter returned from a semester abroad to buoy the team’s finishes...
Harvard began its spring season with a tri-match against Dartmouth and Brown. Junior Jennifer Cronan, next year’s captain, rejoined the team after a semester abroad and helped the Crimson place first. With Loncke finishing in first place, Cronan in third, senior J.J. Kang in fifth, freshman Debbi Amanti in ninth, sophomore Erin Wilson in 10th, Baizer in 11th, and freshman Jessica Hazlett in 14th, the team broke Harvard’s record for 36 holes. The team’s total of 634 beat the previous record by 10 strokes...