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...would feel aboard a plane leaving the runway, it's pure, even, rapid acceleration to 310 mph. The only clue to the sheer speed is the tunnel lights outside: Standing 40 feet apart, they seem to stretch and blend until they appear as a single white stripe; very Buck Rogers. Outside the train makes a searing boom sound as it rips the surrounding air, but inside the car is as quiet as an airplane cabin, if a bit bumpy. Even before you've grown accustomed to the speed, the ride is over, the maglev gliding to a gentle halt, ending...
...were optimistic about the creation of a vibrant, flexible, and student-friendly general education system that would not merely be the Core version 2.0. Yet the proposed legislation to implement the new system has largely dashed our hopes. By leaving out critical details, the draft legislation has passed the buck to a new committee, the decisions of which could very well leave students with another lackluster and dispiriting general education system.One of the most prominent—and in our view the most important—features of the Task Force’s report was allowing well-qualified students...
...Horn, 35, a mother of two from Las Vegas, moved to rural Garrett, Ind., in 2004. "I never fit into the mold," says the former social worker. "I was a tomboy. I'm not domestic. I'm intellectual. I'm an introvert. I'm a person who likes to buck the norm." She began blogging a year ago as RebelliousPastorsWife to "have the conversations I wasn't having in real life"--about "theology, politics, family life, knitting, baseball." Recently she struck up a heated conversation online about the role of the sacraments, a subject she would never bring...
That the media portrays Wellesley unfairly is an opinion universally reflected by students on campus. According to Jaime L. Bence, a freshman at Wellesley, numerous students buck the media’s stereotype: “There’s a demand for better married housing because there are a significant number of married students here. There are engaged students. And as for predominant beliefs, I would talk about the faith-based initiatives on campus. I think we have more of a religious presence on campus than many media portrayals suggest...
...hard-drinking Stanhope (Hugh Dancy, the Brit heartthrob who's a standout in a cast of mostly Americans), lets slip a few bitterly sarcastic words about the general who has ordered the unnecessary raid. But no antiwar playwright could have written the delicate scene in which Stanhope tries to buck up, without shaming, a cowardly officer who is faking illness to avoid battle: "Supposing the worst happened--supposing we were knocked right out. Think of all the chaps who've gone already. It can't be very lonely there--with all those fellows. Sometimes I think it's lonelier here...