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...Atop the center table, now stable and in place, Alessandro unfurls an off-white grid placemat-ish thing, slightly larger than a chessboard. The placemat-ish thing is a map; it is a battlefield; it is a tent; it is whatever the Game Masters choose to make it with their dry erase markers. Indeed, if the real people are actors, playing their elves and orcs with convincing intensity, the placemat-ish thing is the stage. Over the course of the game it will serve as proxy for the characters. In fight scenes, rather than swinging real clubs at each other...

Author: By Elyssa A. L. Spitzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Welcome to the Dungeon | 11/5/2009 | See Source »

...That's not to say that Thompson's research is the final word on the debate. Indeed, glacier experts have been waging an intellectual war for years over what's really causing the ice loss atop Kilimanjaro. The simplest explanation would be that warming temperatures are making the ice melt - and indeed, Thompson believes this is a big part of what's going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Are Kilimanjaro's Glaciers Fading? | 11/3/2009 | See Source »

...University has also undertaken the installation of the largest institutional solar array, a 500 kWh panel atop a University-owned building in Watertown that will generate over 7 percent of the complex’s annual energy...

Author: By Natasha S. Whitney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Signs Wind Power Contract | 11/3/2009 | See Source »

Furthermore, if Luft maintains his 16.3-yards-per-catch career average, he will finish atop the list in that category...

Author: By Eric L. Michel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Can’t Overlook Big Green | 10/30/2009 | See Source »

...leaders Hakimullah Mehsud and Waliur Rehman, which was cleared by the army last week - was not possible due to the continuing threat of rocket fire from militants nearby. There is no clear idea of either of the Taliban commanders' whereabouts, though there have been unconfirmed reports of Mehsud hiding atop Preghal in Badr Valley, South Waziristan's highest peak. Some observers speculate that he may have shifted into North Waziristan, beyond the scope of the offensive, a claim that the army dismisses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Passports of Jihadis Found by Pakistani Army | 10/30/2009 | See Source »

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