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Another ceremony in which some folk and mythstudents participate as part of the sciencefiction club is the "Coming of the Hour." Studentsdress in black and perform a candle-lit ceremonyon the steps of Widener in observance of thechange to daylight savings time...
Like the previous games, the final contest proved a defensive grudge match. Fortunately for the Crimson, however, senior Max Koh took a pass from the middle and found daylight down the left side of the field. He raced 40 meters for the score. Diamond added a conversion and a penalty kick as the team garnered...
Although we were arguing over whether the car needed it, neither of us wanted to check it. Because we both were too lazy and neither of us took auto-shop in high school, we decided to ignore light and the buzzing and put off worrying about the car until daylight. So we drove the car the rest of the distance to Montreal. When we arrived at the border patrol, some guy who spoke broken English asked to see our passports. Of course, we did not have any, nor did we have any registration for this broken-down car. Like...
...city, Louzoum even played the role of a French colonel in an Algerian film on the war of independence. But in a city where foreigners are now targeted for death by Islamic militants, few people were surprised when a young man walked into Louzoum's shop in broad daylight last week and shot him dead, just a few hundred yards from a police checkpoint. His murder mocked government claims that "security and order are being restored...
...Douglas Engelbart (who invented windows and the mouse) and Alan Kay's team at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center in California (which put the ideas to work in a language called Smalltalk and a machine called the Alto). Levy re-creates in vivid detail the December 1979 "daylight raid," when the scrappy engineers from Apple, invited to see the Alto, walked into a Xerox demo room and walked out with something more valuable than Federal Reserve notes or gold bullion: a working paradigm for what a computer should...