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...stops for a moment to master his emotions before continuing. “That day changed my life forever,” he says, his face oddly haunting in the dim candlelight of the cave...
...very first significant comics artist was Winsor McCay, who, just 100 years ago, published his first full-color page of Little Nemo in Slumberland. Here was a popular art at its onset and apogee: not a primitive Lascaux cave painting but a Sunday- supplement Hieronymus Bosch--a glorious otherworld of dreamscapes as phantasmagoric as they were funny. "He created a vocabulary for artistic creation in comics," Carlin says of McCay, "showing how they could achieve extraordinary, avant-garde things without undermining their popular appeal...
...these overreactions.Hand-wringing and reactionary maneuvers are not the solution to college drinking. If Harvard wants to maintain the reputation it has had for three and a half centuries, it needs to cultivate love of alma mater in its students, not pander to the whims of media outlets and cave to the fears of alarmists.Let’s leave that kind of nonsense to Yale. Andrew Kreicher ’06 is a biology concentrator in Leverett House. His column appears on alternate Fridays...
...nosing in wherever it can make things substantially more convenient—the subtle implications of the changes often going unnoticed until they’ve been observed carefully for quite some time. And further, those implications may in many regards be overwhelmingly positive. But lest we cave in some sense to the demands of the ever-growing Facebook group which proposes the California Relocation of Harvard University, we ought to recognize that despite how irritating alarm clocks might seem, and despite how unappealing the blustery walk to Maxwell Dworkin might be, there really is something to the buildings...
...place of a cave, Energetech's four-story-high floating power plant has an open-based, dome-roofed chamber with a narrow opening at the top. As the waves rise and fall inside the chamber, compressed air is forced in and out of the opening, past a turbine that drives a generator. The device, which has been dubbed an "oscillating water column," has been the basis of several plans for generating useful energy. But Denniss, a former lecturer in mathematics and oceanography, curved one wall of the chamber to amplify the wave, much as a car headlight's concave reflecting...