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...comes quickly in space, unless it comes very slowly. The crew of the shuttle Challenger is thought--or hoped--to have suffered little. Crew members of Apollo 13, had they not made it home, would have needed days to breathe up all their air and suffocate. Ever since the crack-up of the shuttle Columbia last month, NASA has wanted to know how the astronauts on that doomed ship met their end--believing that the precise sequence of events on the crew decks would reveal a lot about the precise sequence of breakdowns throughout the ship...
...Back in Bangkok, we crack open some beers, and the afternoon takes another turn for the weird. "I've got 600 ballpoint pens in a box under that desk," Swaffield says abruptly. "I still don't know what to do with them." Or with those wafer-thin frogs, peeled lovingly from roads around Siem Reap and now drying in his window box. He cranks up his Mac to display his latest work: bizarrely beautiful etchings of Angkorian temples where rioting fig-tree roots pulsate and twist in freakish homage to the stone gods. "Surreal, obviously," says Swaffield. Obviously...
...address to incoming first years last fall, Kirby warned, “You are here to work, and your business here is to learn.” He is correct, but only partially. All students must crack their books while at Harvard, and all students should arrive prepared to do so. But academics are not all there is to a Harvard education, and they must not become so, Lewis understood, as he wrote to Kirby, that the administration “should look to pedagogy, the curriculum and advising as matters which, if improved, would make students happier with their...
...with that comeback. Pettit (37 points) and Moore (36) were 1-2 in ECAC regular-season scoring. Moore, with 143 career points, could become one of Harvard’s top 10 all-time scorers by the end of the season, while Pettit has become the first junior to crack 100 points since Steve Martins ’95. Both are strong candidates for the ECAC Player of the Year Award, to be announced tonight at the ECAC awards banquet in Albany...
...spend time with them. I had forgotten how much I missed the atmosphere of a bookstore after being cooped for days in smelly Cabot or on the monastic fifth floor of Lamont. I love bookstores. Millions of tales at my disposal; I open one of them a crack and immediately smell that distinct scent of freshly-printed, newly published words...