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...Since no one was sufficiently familiar with the rites of Toga, participants behaved according to American ’70s custom,” wrote Crimson reporter J. Wyatt Emmerich ’80. “Occasionally someone would chase a friend through the crowd threatening affectionately to straighten her (his?) toga or die trying, but onlookers just smiled timidly and continued to sip their punch...
Summers said that the Baccalaureate Service derived from an over 600-year-old custom at Cambridge University, in which graduates were forced to sit through the ceremony with, “bowed head over which...hood was drawn, a picture of abject humility and utter embarrassment...
...from servicing the new superjumbo Airbus A380 when deliveries begin in 2006, or that it might even imperil Airbus' entire A380 project. That seems farfetched, since de Gaulle (like Frankfurt and Heathrow, which will welcome the first A380 flights by Singapore Airlines), is building the new S3 terminal largely custom-tailored to the A380's needs. Still, the spectacular collapse of 2E's midsection has some wondering whether style didn't undermine solidity. Paul Andreu - ADP's main architect over the past three decades, and who also designed 2E - stood by the futuristic structure as "one of my children." Yves...
...Colonial Tortures. While Muslim torturers applied pain as custom and religion required, colonial torturers showed no such restraint. French police in Algeria argued that the lives of Algerians were so hard that just roughing them up as like criminals were in Paris, the old passage ? tabac, didn?t work. They advocated using water torture and electroshock. These tortures gripped the consciousness of prisoners from the inside. They were interested in creating the most painful experience possible...
Coming late this summer: custom-built headphones that reproduce frequencies ranging from 20 Hz to 120 kHz, generally considered a broader range than humans can hear. After a set is purchased, it's adjusted to one of three sizes to fit the wearer's head. And for the $2,600 list price, you also get your choice of colors--red or blue...