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...Five staccato syllables and rhythmic claps, a football cheer for God's great athlete. And then it was over, and people mingled and smiled, and by late afternoon the young pilgrims had turned the Via della Conciliazione that leads away from St. Peter's into a lively promenade. They broke out coolers of soft drinks. They packed the cafés, strolled down to the Tiber River as the spring light faded. Grief had turned festive with the echo of what the Pope on his deathbed is said to have told his personal secretary: "I am happy," he said...
...lived on food stamps for a time and thought about being a math teacher after seeing her father, a surveyor, lay out streets. But Eileen Collins went into the Air Force instead and in 1999 became the first woman to command a shuttle mission--on the Columbia, which broke apart in midair less than four years later, killing its crew of seven. As soon as next month, Collins, 48, will command the shuttle Discovery in the first U.S. manned space flight since the Columbia disaster brought such missions to a halt...
...years, is open to visitors. Einstein resided at Kramgasse 49 in 1905, during his annus mirabilis-the miraculous year in which he devised theories to explain Brownian motion, the photoelectric effect and special relativity (E=mc2). The then 26-year-old described it as the time when "a storm broke loose in my mind." The museum features original furnishings and some turn-of-the-century physics-lab equipment, along with photos of Einstein and copies of his notes and speeches. Tickets are $4; tel: (41-31) 312 00 91, einstein-bern.ch...
...this weekend’s spring season opener, Harvard claimed a record-breaking victory over Brown and the Big Green. The team broke the school record for a two-day meet point total—316 points on the first day followed by 318 points on the second day—and also saw freshman Katie Loncke finish first in individual competition...
About a month ago, Ben & Jerry’s broke devastating news to ice cream lovers everywhere. The franchise’s chocolate chip ice cream, favorite of grandmothers and college students alike, has kicked the bucket...