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...Physics 11 page has video demonstrations of concepts ranging from how a vacuum affects free fall to what happens when a TF is placed between two beds of nails with a cinder block...
...film crew, headed by Spike Lee, from shooting the video for They Don't Care About Us in the slum. That resolved, Jackson arrived by helicopter and was swept into a newly painted house for two hours of makeup before being filmed singing and dancing on and around cinder-block shacks. Finally came revelations that the film company had unknowingly paid off local drug lords for permission to shoot. "Producers have to negotiate with the right person, the one in charge," Lee told reporters...
...have the chance to witness the greatest economic boom and spiritual renewal in America's history," Forbes said. "We need to remove the cinder-blocks around the legs of America to move ahead. We need to give individuals the opportunity and responsibility to shape their own lives...
...think the trial ultimately transcended television. As testimony dragged on and on, slowly accreting detail and complexity, the drama in Judge Ito's courtroom began to remind me of nothing so much as an overstuffed 19th century novel, one of those ripping, 800-page doorstops from college, a real cinder block of a narrative. We got cliffhanger after cliffhanger, and more subplots than a contemporary storyteller might deem prudent. And thanks to the lawyers, we even got bigger words than most of us are used to in 1995--just like in Henry James...
Students at other colleges, most of whom livein minuscule two-person boxes with cinder blockwalls and linoleum floors tend to get jealous whenthey see pictures of elegant Harvard quarters. Andwith good reason. Harvard's dorms have somedrawbacks, of course; students need to develop thestamina to climb stairs and a high tolerance forold architecture. But a housing system thatinvolves working fireplaces, wooden floors,spacious rooms and beautiful landscaping isn'tsuch a bad start to a Harvard career.Crimson File PhotoCanaday, the newest first-year dorm,consists of seven rectangular buildings in thenortheast corner of the Yard...