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...Cameron's state-of-the-art screening room in Santa Monica, Calif., prepared to be dazzled. Instead, disaster struck. An electrical short shut down the projector. For a director whose films often deal with the treachery of technology, the symbolism was painfully apt. For Mechanic, it was another speed bump on the highway to hell. Murdoch left without seeing a frame of film...
...Lincoln Street resident was hit by a blue van as he rode his bicycle on Cambridge Street. The victim suffered large facial and lip cuts, a large bump to the forehead, and lost several teeth...
...inventory is sort of like that. It is a record of haphazard events, the serendipity that Jane Jacobs used to say made for a pleasant city. So I jot down the stuff I bump into, or that bumps into me--nature's bewildering accidents, good and bad, ridiculous, astonishing. The task is overwhelming...
...most distant module, the Kvant, where the unmanned ship would actually dock. Shining a laser range finder out the stern porthole, he would measure Progress's distance and report it through a headset to Tsibliyev. If everything went well, Foale would be the first to feel the slight bump as the eight-ton, 23-ft. ship barely kissed the far larger...
...least for this weekend, college students don't own the town. Still, as I divide the better part of my evening between two bars popular with Harvard students, it becomes clear that undergraduates are making a strong showing: within minutes at each over-crowded location I manage to bump into freshman-year dorm mates, hometown acquaintances and a number of kids in the Class of 2000. Later, making my way between bars, I look high and low for bands of tipsy underclassmen among the river Houses, but I never do find them...