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THE MAN IN THE BALL. A metal sphere just over two feet in diameter was placed at the bottom of a long, spiral track. The ball moved, as if by magic, slowly and smoothly up the perilous incline. Almost 24 feet in the air, the ball stopped . . . A pistol shot...
For dessert (because who gives an entree as a gift?), there's 500 chocolate truffles (1 year, 4 months, 13 days' worth if consumed one per day) from Sweet Stuff, in the Shops by Harvard Yard, or 33 Platinum gift-wrapped balatons of Neuhaus Belgian chocolates from Cardullo's. Or...
Three pipes run through the system, two of them 10 inches in diameter and one 12 inches wide--carrying steam hotter than 400 degrees Fahrenheit, Hawkes says.
In front of the gaudy, gilt Buddhist temple we stopped, and approached a crowd of people, children mostly, who were squatting around a circular, white, plastic tub. Many small hands swirled in the tub's water. Each hand held a round, metal loop that had white filter paper stretched across...
A continuing survey with the new telescopes, the panel predicted, would discover most of the large Earth-crossers within a decade, and virtually all of them in 25 years. And while the survey was hunting its larger prey, it would also spot many of the estimated 300,000 ECAs larger...