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...with horrible questions we never thought we’d have to ask ourselves. How long, we wonder, have the Harvard facilities lulled us into a false sense of security? How can we protect ourselves against our own brainchildren, the tools of our own making? Are we to be destroyed by the very forces that have worked so long to protect us? We now know that we may never trust another Harvard building again. The very fortresses we have forged have become the weapons that will destroy us. Beware the Widener tunnels, lest they collapse upon us, entombing...
...Nightingale,” a father drops his son off at a military academy “for his own good.” As he drives away he becomes paranoid that the academy is not really a school but a huge con to kidnap and destroy young men. The story asks pertinent questions about the threatening allure of the military: the strength of character it builds despite the dominance of the institution over the individual. These questions are juxtaposed against the protagonist’s ephemeral awareness of the countryside—the color of the fields...
...bonobos' peaceable nature, however, has not spared them an unhappy history. Like most great apes, they are in decline, victims of poachers who kill them for bush meat, loggers and miners who destroy their habitat and healers who prize their bones as part of a potion for pregnant women. Estimates of the surviving bonobo population range from a few thousand to the low tens of thousands. But every study indicates that the figure is falling...
...more generally, should help facilitate research on campus—maybe even professors will learn a thing or two from students’ work. On a lighter but important note, the Free Thesis Project may help students late at night in early spring when they are ready to destroy their computers and quit their theses: “Will anyone except my two graders read this thing!?!” is a reasonable question on students’ minds. With the Free Thesis Project, students should be assured that generations of researchers—or at least people...
Captain John Prater, president of the Air Lines Pilots Association, says a shortage of qualified pilots is severely affecting some regionals' ability to fly, tempting them to push pilots to fly beyond Federal Aviation Administration maximum flight times. Chronic pilot fatigue jeopardizes safety--and the pipeline's flow. "You destroy the benefit and the value of being an airline pilot, and people will take their skills elsewhere," he says. And they...