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...Testing Feat. The reason why some people might look on the three students as a little odd is that they graduated last week from Johns Hopkins University at the age of 17. All have IQs of more than 150. And all three-along with five other precocious seniors-were found at the early age of 12 or 13 to be mathematical wizards, capable of feats such as scoring well on algebra tests without ever having taken the subject...
...House showed its first X-rated film, The Devil and Miss Jones. Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, thought their choice inappropriate and called the woman in charge of the society to tell her so. As a joke, the Quincy society decided a year later to reenact their feat and show The Cheerleaders, an R-rated, soft-core porno. Epps questioned Keane about the choice, but didn't interfere. This year they continued their tradition and scheduled Supervixens for four showings last weekend...
...camp at Lübeck. He sustained himself by teaching other inmates (and occasionally playing pranks, like painting a pigeon's wings with the red. white and blue tricolor and then setting it loose, provoking a vain fusillade from German guards). He sustained himself too by a great feat of memory-writing The Mediterranean, filling up and mailing out one schoolboy copybook after another. "I had to believe that history, destiny, was written at a much more profound level," recalls Braudel of those years. "So it was that I consciously set forth in search of a historical language...
Lindbergh's feat was technologically progressive; its trajectory pointed into the future. Much of today's adventuring is essentially regressive - men employing ever more primitive modes of transportation. Thor Heyerdahl's crew sailed in the papyrus rafts called Ra I and II to show that ancient Egyptians might have discovered America. His 1947 voyage aboard the Kon Tiki was similarly primitive...
...communicating with it. Many of the scientists now beaming signals into the ether might find themselves speechless if someone - or something - should answer. They can always use the author as an interpreter. Carl Sagan already knows how to communicate with lay men. Any scientist who can perform that feat should find talking to extraterrestrials as easy...