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Many early bird students were able to catch, if not worms, at least their own rooms upon landing in Cambridge last week. Kudos go to house superintendents who were kind enough to accommodate these students not just with bridge housing, but with their own space, saving them the schlep of a double move-in. These superintendents include those in charge of Dunster House, Leverett House, Pforzheimer House and Mather House...
Anon, to sudden silence won, In fancy they pursue The dream-child moving through a land Of wonders wild and new, In friendly chat with bird or beast-- And half believe it true. --Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland...
...restore. Take the problem of "magic cookies"--those little bits of code most Websites use to track visitors. We set up a system at Pathfinder in which, when you visit our site, we drop a cookie into the basket of your browser that tags you like a rare bird. We use that cookie in place of your name, which, needless to say, we never know. If you look up a weather report by keying in a zip code, we note that (it tells us where you live or maybe where you wish you lived). We'll mark down whether...
...document emerging illnesses like Lyme disease or recruit volunteers to test new AIDS medications. Archaeologists increasingly rely on the help of lay people who pay for the privilege of accompanying the scientists on digs. And even in summer, the National Audubon Society is looking forward to its Christmas bird count, a winter tradition in which thousands of volunteers survey the ornithological fauna near their homes in order to map ranges and track populations. "People want to go out and observe," says Frank Gill, the Audubon Society's science director, "but they want to contribute their observations to a larger goal...
...when he was a producer for the 1984 Olympics Arts Festival, where he hoped to put on a musical she had co-written. That didn't work out, but a decade later--after Taymor had won acclaim for her presentations of opera (Oedipus Rex), children's works (The Green Bird) and, last season, a Tony-nominated musical fable, Juan Darien--Schumacher approached her again. This time he asked whether she wanted to direct The Lion King. Taymor hadn't even seen the film, but after Schumacher sent her a videocassette and the sound track, she agreed to give...