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...wife Peggy, a former accountant, and their three young daughters. They live in a $753,000 ranch-style home in a shady Houston enclave quite unlike the middle-class neighborhood where Duncan grew up in Beaumont, Texas. Duncan belongs to the pricey Houston Racquet Club and is an avid golfer and tennis player. These days, though, he's often found working out in the club gym--a solitary figure trying to get through what friends say is the worst period of his life...
...claims to redefine the foundations of virtually every branch of science, from physics and mathematics to biology and even psychology. "Stephen is not a modest man," says Terrence Sejnowski, director of the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif., who is an avid Wolfram watcher. "But his ideas could turn out to be extremely important...
...collection also touches on Sacks’ lifelong infatuation with water. An avid swimmer, Sacks once noted in an interview with the Harvard Gazette, “I feel the desire to immerse myself in another element which is uncontrollable, mysterious, beautiful, rhythmic, and which is related to my desire to engage with poetic language as a medium...
Zadoc P. Angell ‘03 never wore He-Man underwear. That was one merchandise tie-in item that this avid fan’s mother never tucked under the Christmas tree. Despite this deprivation, Angell’s childhood fascination with the Master of the Universe blossomed into a passion that has outlasted his little-boy-brief days. Angell, a film concentrator within the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, is the biggest He-Man and She-Ra fan at Harvard (or at least the most public supporter of the series) and, according...
...phra at its inception. "We wanted to do something for our brothers," says Sawoey. But not all their brothers like what they do. Even when just paying a friendly visit, they're as welcome in some temples as internal-affairs investigators in a police station. Adul, who is an avid fan of detective flicks, says the life of a tamruat phra is a lonely one. Not to mention dangerous. "Suspects often resist," says Sawoey. A former rock guitarist and boiler room worker, still beefy after 25 years as a monk, he's been punched, kicked, black-eyed and bloodied...