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...General Manager Richard M. Spingel and his crew had been moving tables since late Saturday night to make room for the two large wind-surfing sails they hauled in early yesterday morning. Eliot House boasted a frozen drink bar in a makeshifts thatched hut and swaying schools of helium-balloon fish weighted down by pineapples. Signs instructed diners to "eat your fruit or wear it on your head...

Author: By Geoffrey A. Fowler, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In HDS' festive meals, what are the ingredients of a cultural experience? | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

...General Manager Richard M. Spingel and his crew had been moving tables since late Saturday night to make room for the two large wind-surfing sails they hauled in early yesterday morning. Eliot House boasted a frozen drink bar in a makeshift thatched hut and swaying schools of helium-balloon fish weighted down by pineapples. Signs instructed diners to "eat your fruit or wear it on your head...

Author: By Geoffrey A. Fowler, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Playing With Your Food | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

...Doctors use balloon angioplasty to unclog a coronary artery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Century of Science | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...spindly, twin-boomed plane that in 1986 was the first to fly around the world without refueling. Aircraft designed by Burt Rutan don't look like other planes. One of the industry's most innovative and influential designers, Rutan has built a pressurized gondola for a round-the-world balloon attempt, a rigid winglike sail for an America's Cup winner, GM's Ultralight show car and the X-38 NASA crew-return vehicle. He is now testing his most exotic craft yet, the asymmetrical twin-engined Boomerang, designed to prevent instability should one engine fail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beyond Kitty Hawk | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

Hubble went on to trump even that achievement by showing that this galaxy-studded cosmos is expanding--inflating majestically like an unimaginably gigantic balloon--a finding that prompted Albert Einstein to acknowledge and retract what he called "the greatest blunder of my life." Hubble did nothing less, in short, than invent the idea of the universe and then provide the first evidence for the Big Bang theory, which describes the birth and evolution of the universe. He discovered the cosmos, and in doing so founded the science of cosmology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Astronomer Edwin Hubble | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

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