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Strings first popped up unexpectedly in the mathematical models of particle physicists. Right after the big bang, the mathematics suggests, the rapidly cooling cosmos underwent a phase transition, roughly analogous to the sharp change that occurs when water turns into ice. And just as an ice cube is marred by cracks and lines left over from uneven freezing, the universe too might have developed flaws -- in the form of strings. These strings would try to straighten and contract, often whipping about and getting tangled in the process. When a string crossed itself, the resulting loop would pinch off from...
...first 10 minutes, Freinkel's mainstage production leans toward innovation. The stage is divided: one side contains stylized broken marble pillars; while the other, raked half features a big brass bed, boulders, and a door on a checkerboard cube seemingly embedded in the Loeb floor. Presumably, the split is intended to illustrate the difference between Macbeth's public behavior in front of the pillars and his secret thoughts in his twisted bedroom. Both sides taken together, the stage looks like something Dali might have sketched on the back of a napkin...
...twirls (and spills) and sip hot cocoa on a wintry afternoon. In 1980 the city closed Wollman for renovations, which were expected to take no longer than two years. The city originally estimated that the repair bill would total $9 million, but it eventually reached $12 million without a cube of ice to show for it. The roof of the pavilion, which houses the changing rooms and restaurant, was riddled with holes and made a perfect sieve. The ice-making equipment could not do its job because its 22 miles of refrigeration pipes had sprung dozens of leaks, a disaster...
...still early, but the race may be over. Not the race for the 1986 NFL play-offs or the race for the 1992 Summer Olympics, but the 1986 Sports Cube Predicts race...
Does the Harvard community at large really watch this race as closely as the current leader seems to think? I mean, are there--in dorm rooms all over Cambridge--magnetic standings boards on which our readers eagerly track the Sports Cube Predicts race...