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They weighed no more than a hand-ful of peanuts, had large, saucer-like eyes and flitted about the treetops of humid Asian rain forests on feet no bigger than rice grains. Shy nocturnal creatures, they snapped up insects and nectar as quickly as their tiny bodies could digest them, all the while trying to avoid becoming a meal themselves for nightly predators such as owls. Meet Eosimias, the "dawn monkey"--what some experts are calling the primate equivalent of the missing link...
Dartmouth (5-2-0, 5-2-0) is taking as long as possible to let its Thanksgiving turkey digest. The Big Green has not played since last Tuesday, and its next game is Dec. 11 at Minnesota. Dartmouth will not resume ECAC action until Jan. 5 at Boston College, which will allow everyone else to build up a substantial lead over the Big Green in the conference standings...
...couple of months ago, the Professor Scrut rose from the grave. Version Three working title: "Professor Houses." We'd publish FM Architectural Digest with luscious photography of the homes of Harvard's most esteemed faculty. They'd welcome us into their Victorian mansions or humble bungalows and give us the full tour from home-office, to library, to master bedroom. We'd wait for the "golden hour" around dinner time to shoot the grounds and the photos would be worthy of Better Homes and Gardens. But all 40 of Harvard's big wigs said no--"no way"-- except Harvey Mansfield...
...PHILOSOPHY] Make carbohydrates 60% of your daily diet; denser ones fill you up and require more calories to digest...
...Where Eliot's vastness is oppressive, Mather's seems refreshing. The hall's horizontal expansiveness is divided into different sections, allowing a diner to digest (no pun intended) the immense space of the dining hall in manageable increments. As in Quincy, there is a rectangular central eating area that is flanked on both sides by more intimate commensal spaces. Rather than resolutely delineating spatial boundaries using flanks of columns as Quincy does, Mather separates the private side spaces from the main area with boundaries that are themselves dining spaces (alternating brick walls and tables), seamlessly moving from one dining space...