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...excitement has gone out of flying, try spending an afternoon with Fighter Combat International (fightercombat.com). Based at Williams Gateway?a small airport in Mesa, Arizona?the company offers 45-minute flights piloted by former U.S. top guns and air-combat instructors, for $345 and up. You'll climb into a German-made Extra 300L aircraft?a plane purpose-built for aerobatic stunts?and hang on tight as your pilot takes you on knuckle-whitening maneuvers at speeds of up to 250 m.p.h. There's even a chance to engage in mock dogfights, complete with the sound of simulated gunfire...
Dawson rushed his way into the record books last weekend yet again, becoming Harvard’s all-time leader in rushing yardage. This week he looks to continue his climb up the Ivy all-time rushing list...
...start. But there is a higher brain as well. If war originates as an impulse of the lower mind, then peace is an accomplishment of the higher, and the ascent from the brain's basement, where the crocodile lives, to the upper chambers may be the most impressive climb that humans attempt. In 1993 the traffic was heavy in both directions, from the world's lower brain to the upper, and back down again. Gestures of statesmanship, as lately in Northern Ireland, alternated with low-brain savageries: the lashing tribal wars of Bosnia, Somalia, Kashmir, Afghanistan, Angola, Burundi, Georgia, Nagorno...
...developed what Kidder calls a "comprehensive theory of poverty," which Farmer elaborates on in books that are surprisingly angry for so gentle a man. In Pathologies of Power (2003), his most recent, he argues that the only antidote for the "structural violence" that keeps the poor too sick to climb out of the hole they are in is to treat health care as the most basic human right and do whatever it takes to deliver...
...Wednesday night in the Lowell Belltower, girl after girl came panting up the stairs, struggling to climb the five flights in their three-inch stilettos. But the Belltower was not hosting a party. It was housing auditions for Haute, the annual fashion show now run by the Harvard Vestis Council. Of the girls who climbed, some, in beautiful dresses and expensive accessories, had modeled before. Others were taking a more casual approach, wearing clothes and jewelry they had made with their own hands. Julia K. Clarke ’05 arrived in a home-made Zoolander “Derelicte?...