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...weeks after I was offered a ride home from Cambridge's police department, another student, Clarice Ballard, was refused one from Harvard's Why? She was using the police escort service too often--a sadly twisted reason for refusal. The University police should not have hesitated to give her frequent rides--she was returning to the same isolated home night after night and many in her neighborhood recently had been victims of armed robberies...
Pandole, Harvard's number-one player, captured a 15-5, 11-15, 15-13, 15-7 decision over Stuart Ballard. Pandole's shots seemed to land everywhere where Ballard wasn't. The senior had perfectly placed drop shots and nicks en route to his victory...
...issue of the magazine, scientific symposiums and special exhibits in Washington, it can look back on a distinguished record of accomplishment. Since 1890 it has helped fund some 3,300 research projects and expeditions, from Commander Robert Peary's 1909 trek to the North Pole to Marine Geologist Robert Ballard's 1986 exploration of the wreck of the Titanic. The society was the first American publisher to set up a color photo lab (1920), the first to feature underwater color photographs (1927), and the first to print a hologram, or three-dimensional photograph...
...Spielberg decided to take the manly course of growing up onscreen. Adapting J.G. Ballard's fictionalized memoir of his days spent scavenging for survival in a Japanese concentration camp, Spielberg and Playwright Tom Stoppard (Travesties, The Real Thing) do a reprise of the director's favorite narrative recipe. A child is separated from his parents, confronts adversity and is reunited with them. But here the child is not abducted by poltergeists < or locked in a De Lorean time warp. Young Jim (Christian Bale) loses his way because, in the tumbledown panic of escape from Shanghai, he reaches for his precious...
From the outset, Woods Hole's Ballard has been sharply critical of the French expedition. "By what right did they take a piece of human history and destroy it?" he asks. But to say that the salvage operation exploited the Titanic, recently wrote William F. Buckley Jr., who visited the Titanic site last summer as a guest of the French, is like "saying that Gauguin exploited Tahiti...