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...safe bet the herd of deer that wandered onto the grounds of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (J.P.L.) in Pasadena, Calif., last week had no idea what was going on when a team of scientists burst into a courtyard, cheering and high-fiving over the successful landing of the Spirit rover on the surface of Mars. If the deer wander back this week, they could see more of the same, that is if Spirit--which has been operating splendidly but has not yet budged from the safety of its landing platform--at last rolls cautiously down onto the red Martian...
...girlie mag was tatty, printed on coarse paper, with only a few pages of runny color; they were the Ace paperbacks of voyeurism. Their meager, TV Guide-size dimensions meant that any model on display in their cramped surroundings had no acuter definition than a woman undressing across the courtyard, behind a screen, in the dark. I suppose that the dingy quality of the girlie pix, like the furtive circumstances of their purchase, was part of their appeal. In the 50s, guilty pleasures were almost obliged to convey more guilt than pleasure...
...cared for them until they hatched into little green caterpillars, then morphed into fuzzy white-and-black moths who proceeded to make more caterpillar eggs. Eventually there were hundreds of caterpillars in our little room, too many to stay. Knowing they had little chance for survival in the Quincy courtyard, my roommate released them in the wilderness near Concord, Mass...
...took cordless phones from people’s rooms, we put the antennas pointed out the window, and then we handed out the phones in the courtyard,” he explains...
...that Eastern tuning can be. The monks have already shouted post-Soviet hosannas to the heavens upon playing the bells briefly—but before they waste too much energy on their vaguely Quixotic quest, the monks should see if it changes their minds to sit in the Lowell courtyard and let the bell-boys (and girls) do their thing for a few hours or twenty. After that, if they still want the things, let them spruce up Putin’s not-quite-police-state however they...