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...wears a helmet to protect his skull--and a warm heart. He sees a boy floating face down in a swimming pool and dives in to save him. Already racked by an inadvertent tragedy, George assigns himself the mission of saving people. Striding through town in a bedsheet cape, sports tights and a helmet, he seems an endearingly preposterous figure. But Nasia is drawn to a man with a quest. "If I ever get in trouble," she says, "will you save my life...
...whose high school nickname was the Napster (a reference to his perpetually nappy hair), just shrugged. But he began thinking there might be a way to access files without going through a website. He had taught himself Unix programming between his junior and senior years at Harwich High in Cape Cod. And he knew enough to think such a program would have to be possible. "I had this idea that there was a lot of material out there sitting on people's hard drives," he says. "I mean, even if you were at [search-engine websites like] Lycos or Scour...
That far out in the bay, the water is 100 feet deep and the currents are strong. According to MWRA Director of Communications Johnathan Yeo, this, combined with the more disinfected water that emerges from the outfall, makes it "unlikely that any one living fifteen miles away on Cape Cod will feel effects from the new outfall pipes...
...also forms as much as two weeks later in the autumn than it used to in Hudson Bay, creating a bewildering situation for some of the local wildlife. Polar bears that ordinarily emerge from their summer dens and walk north up Cape Churchill before proceeding directly onto the ice now arrive at their customary departure point and find open water. Unable to move forward, the bears turn left and continue walking right into town, arriving emaciated and hungry. To reduce unscheduled encounters between townspeople and the carnivores, natural-resource officer Wade Roberts and his deputies tranquilize the bears with...
When Rachel and I bought and renovated this 1935 Cape Cod in Bethesda, Md., three years ago, we did the usual engineering, radon and termite inspections. But like most other new homeowners, we knew nothing about what might be brewing behind the walls. Neither of us had any symptoms that might indicate this was a sick house. We had had a series of roof leaks over the past year, though. Were we next...