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...Rubin was never much of a reader, and upon his retirement, in 1995, he spent a lot of time on his five La-Z-Boys with ESPN. Fortuitously, in 1997 a presenter from Ohio--Ralph Borror, who runs abraham-lincoln.net--did a Lincoln event at a mall near Rubin's house. Rubin, who has Lincoln's protuberant nose, his scraggly eyebrows, his height (Rubin is 6 ft. 3 in.; Lincoln was 6 ft. 4 in.) and his beard--grown years ago--was surprised, and a bit envious, that someone over at the mall would pay a man to come down from...
...controversial Harvard architect boasted recently, "I found Harvard a city of brick, and I will leave it a city of cement." Many Cambridge residents deplore current trends in University building design. Your columnist shows you how Administration preferences, Faculty demands, and budgetary constraints combine to produce the latest borror at which you will look askance...
Sack then turns his attention to the early season Radcliffe social, the jollyup, which "brings together fifty or so girls and upwards of two hundred stage for an evening of pure Dantean borror...
Professors Donald J. Borror and Carl R. Reese borrowed an elaborate audio-spectrograph from the university's astronomical observatory (where it was used to study the scintillations of stars), and used it to analyze bird songs recorded in the fields and woods. It could hear notes much higher than the human limit (about 18,000 cycles a second), and it could catch and write down on its paper tape the fastest variations in the songs...
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