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...Quincy Junior Common Room be open? Would the TV turn on (mind you, I live in Quincy)? And, most importantly, would the room be free of conscientious objectors? I trembled at the notion of puritanical types who might object to watching a dysfunctional family of murderous and blasphemous crack-peddling Mafiosi...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $18 Billion and No HBO? | 9/26/2002 | See Source »

First, “Harvard: Hidden Termbill Increases” would be an acceptable answer to the SAT Verbal analogy “CRACK FIEND: CRACK.” Whatever Harvard’s motivations for withholding cable are, they surely have nothing to do with keeping termbill increases either transparent or democratic. Prescription drug plan expansion. Activities fee hikes. Mandatory telephone service, which, as a bonus, is run by idiots. Need I list more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $18 Billion and No HBO? | 9/26/2002 | See Source »

...hydrogen, while abundant in the air, isn't widely available in refined form. And machines that run on hydrogen are equally scarce. Researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology have been working on the first problem, automakers on the second. The Tokyo group has developed a way to "crack" hydrogen, using a mesh of thin carbon fibers studded with molecules of a nickel compound. The filter breaks down natural gas into carbon and hydrogen that is pure enough for use in fuel cells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nanotechnology: Very small Business | 9/23/2002 | See Source »

...most desert policemen are more than happy to pose for photographs and pour strong Arabic coffee for travelers passing their sentry posts. But there's more to the desert patrolmen than just being the country's answer to the Tower of London's Beefeaters. They are, in fact, a crack squad with responsibilities that include monitoring the borders with Saudi Arabia, Syria and Iraq. Borders that, given Jordan's relative freedoms compared with some other Middle Eastern countries, are kept busy with smugglers and illegal immigrants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Spot | 9/23/2002 | See Source »

...campaign has caused a stir in Mzuzu, but Malawi’s Home Affairs Minister Mojeza Maluza told news agencies that police would crack down on the leaflet’s author because it was causing “anarchy...

Author: By Samuel M. Kabue, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Malawi Arrests ’94 Graduate | 9/23/2002 | See Source »

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