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...Based on amateur night at New York City's Apollo Theatre in Harlem, members of the Harvard community took to the stage to display their wide range of talents to a crowd of about...
Scott M. Jezak, the Speedway's marketing director, explains that not every night is amateur night. "The International Hot Rod Association (IHRA) is the sanctioning body, and we have world class racing here. A lot of the pros come here. We set a lot of world records this year. We reset the top fuel dragster record." Things get a little a hairier those nights, "the cars get up to 300 miles per hour and sometimes we have fire problems explosions, but everyone's wearing fire suits and helmets." Evidently, that's what the crowds like to see; often upwards...
...Boston Mycological Club, the Oldest Amateur Mycological Club in North America, can help fungiphiles learn to grow their own yummy portabello and shitake `shrooms or get the more intrepid myco-hunter involved in local mushroom forays. Harvard students could benefit from a bit more savoir-faire. As June Beack `01 comments, "I think mushrooming would be a fun sport, what with the pigs and everything...
...Luck certainly played its part as I was in no way conducting a systematic search for comets," Williams says. "However, had I not made the effort to observe under full moon when most other amateur astronomers are inactive, who knows who else may have discovered this comet...
...Like most other amateur astronomers, I observe the sky for the pure love and fascination of the universe in which we live," Williams says...