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Tusk and Heller later became members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Science Fiction Association (HRSFA), a social group united by a love of science fiction, gaming and contrarian pranks. Since her freshman year, Heller, now chair of HRSFA, has learned how little attachment the cloak...
...audience through frequent site changes. The costumes, inspired by the punk designs of Vivianne Westwood, are entertainment in themselves—a fascinating blend of patterns, textures, and colors perfectly coordinated with characters’ personalities. Particularly stunning are Lady Fancyfull’s hot-pink, floor-length feathery cloak and the dress Sir Brute wears to the magistrate’s home. Yes, I said dress...
After the drama of discovery in the first half, "Suspended in Language" turns into a something of a cloak-and-dagger thriller. When the Nazis occupied Denmark, Bohr remained under virtual house arrest for both his Jewish heritage and his anti-Nazi worldview. He survived this way until 1943 when, days before being taken away, he escaped to England in the bomber hold of an allied aircraft. Eventually he made his way to the top-secret Manhattan Project where his theories were being tested on the making of a nuclear bomb. He soon became a security concern, however, since...
...well founded. Adding to the stigma surrounding AIDS in these villages is the role that local leaders played in the blood-buying program. "Many government officials made a lot of money," says the patient advocate who calls himself Ke'Er. To protect themselves, they wrapped their villages in the cloak of state secrecy, effectively sealing off AIDS patients from foreign aid groups as well as health officials from other provinces. AIDS-care centers still won't put the word AIDS on their doors, opting instead for such intentionally obscure labels as "home garden...
Google's IPO filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission last week removed the cloak from the secretive company's financial health, and the numbers dazzled. "We were amazed," says Kathy Smith, an analyst at Renaissance Capital, an IPO-research firm based in Greenwich, Conn. "We never expected to see such a large, profitable company." Google is used by more than 100 million people a month and sells text-based ads that Web surfers actually want. Revenues are just a third less than Yahoo's. The company expects to raise $2.7 billion from the IPO, which would make...