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...Harvard team became stunt coordinators when they chose Problem A—a challenge to create the best arrangement of cardboard boxes to cushion the fall of a stunt person on a motorcycle jumping over an elephant...
Three first-years won a prestigious mathematics contest after spending 96 hours—including one stretch of 50 sleepless hours—solving a problem involving an elephant, a motorcyclist and cardboard boxes...
...said the team studied actual tests from the cardboard industry, scouring the internet and libraries for facts about the elasticity of cardboard and the process of boxes buckling under weight...
...result, the first-years learned a lot more about cardboard than they ever wanted to know, Ganatra said...
...would mistake these camps for three-star hotels. Nothing is easy here. Blinding, unseasonably fierce dust storms are turning the sky apocalyptic orange. The wind and sand blast the skin and destroy tents. Rain turns the desert into sludge. Troops wash their clothes in cardboard boxes lined with plastic bags, but socks and underwear can go a fortnight between washings. "We're not getting paid to smell pretty," says Lance Corporal Jason Wilebski, 19, queuing for a haircut. In these cramped quarters, tempers chafe. Some soldiers are not coping at all. One young man shot himself in the foot...