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Speaking at a conference on national security and the academy held at MIT last month, Vest outlined for a group of scholars the constellation of post-Sept. 11 legislation, a virtual alphabet soup of acts and procedures...
With a last name near the end of the alphabet, Watson was assigned a mailbox in the Classics office that was fortuitously located next to a cubby for the Harvard Classics Club. Week after week Watson noticed that the club’s box remained empty. After looking through archives and talking with administrators, he discovered the inactive club, which had been founded in 1885, had produced Greek plays in Harvard Stadium...
...relieved when the coach announces that we are moving on to drills, which seem to involve a lot of arm-waving and exclamations. As Coach Amy chants “Low V, T, High V...” we try our best to emulate letters of the alphabet. Amy also admonishes us to, “Show your doughnut holes, girls!” (Cheerleading terminology defines “doughnut holes” as “those little circles your fingers make when you form a fist”. You have to turn them towards the front...
...story was Craig Venter, the self-made man of genes who had built a private company to read the full sequence of the human genome in competition with an international consortium funded by taxes and charities. That sequence--a string of 3 billion letters, composed in a four-letter alphabet, containing the complete recipe for building and running a human body--was to be published the very next day (the competition ended in an arranged tie). The first analysis of it had revealed that there were just 30,000 genes in it, not the 100,000 that many had been...
...combat zone. What they never take into account is the frazzled woman who is leading a double life--trying to be a good mother while having to pretend at work that she doesn't have kids at all. Here, for those heroically divided souls, I present the Mother's Alphabet...