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...student here in Cambridge—one might even say she waxes poetically about her undergraduate experience. She was, as her ill-fated sonnet attests, “wide-eyed,” but not “lonely”; her fellow ’Cliffies joined her atop Cabot Hall at night to recite poetry. She swam competitively. And in 1945, she fell in love...
...family-vacation outfit than a security tool. Each of four passengers had a color video screen and easy access to a small box with knobs and a joystick. Only this wasn't a game: it was part of a remotely operated weapons system. The screens display views from cameras atop the truck with a range, clarity and thermal-imaging capacity that permit operators to see what the human eye cannot. The joystick allows a gunner to aim the cameras and fire a machine gun, also mounted on the truck bed, while the crew is protected inside the armored...
...spent plutonium fuel rods that could be used to build as many as six atomic bombs. Equally troubling, the director of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, Vice Admiral Lowell Jacoby, testified in Congress last week that the North may now be capable of putting nuclear warheads atop missiles that can reach Japan and perhaps even America's West Coast. Bush commented: "We don't know if he can or not, but I think it's best when dealing with a tyrant like Kim Jong Il to assume that...
...Dean Barry R. Bloom have said that the gag order will soon be rescinded. We applaud the administration for this move and encourage them to look for a solution that will provide both the oversight necessary and address Kanki’s grievances. If Harvard is to remain perched atop the research food chain, it must take steps to ensure that the balance between its own interests and the interests of its researchers never tips too far out of kilter...
With branding time near, the tension grows thick. One waddie fires the propane to heat the branding iron, while another scrapes his knife across a whetstone. Three others climb atop their mounts to lasso the calves from among the dozen skittish critters in the tight pen. One crazy cow, a 1,500-lb. mother with twisting horns sharpened for the gore, tries twice to leap the fence but fails, landing with a thud hard enough to shake your ancestors...