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...fifteenth book written or edited by the man who wrote the longest undergraduate thesis at Harvard is itself most notable for its attempt to play it safe...
...After a year at Boston's Emerson College and another three with the Fifteenth Air Force near Foggia, Italy (since enshrined as Archie's old unit), Lear was laid off his first job with a Manhattan publicity firm. Then he went bankrupt with his own novelty ashtray business. He took his wife and infant daughter to Los Angeles, where half of his luck improved. He at least survived as a door-to-door salesman of furniture and baby pictures...
Hartford never regained the lead after Harvard closed the first half with a 12-3 run, but refused to give up and take its fifteenth loss of the season. Led by junior guard Mantas Storpirstis, the Hawks were 7-for-7 from the line and hit two three-pointers in the final two minutes of the game...
Last year's swarm of millennial retrospectives put a peculiar emphasis on Gutenberg's invention of moveable type, as if it prefigured all subsequent media revolutions: television, the Internet, etc. What the Discovery Channel failed to drool over was the near-simultaneous development of printmaking. In the fifteenth century, woodcuts and engravings were accessible to an audience much larger than the small literate classes, and even today we cannot claim to be anything other than a visual culture. Early prints should be as important to us as early editions of the Bible...
...want them diverting scarce resources and manpower into keeping alive an orbiting derelict," says Kluger. "But that won't make much difference to Moscow, because Mir is an enormously emotional issue for Russia - it's the last surviving achievement of their once-great space program." And in its fifteenth year in space, they'd rather see it turned into a millionaires' motel than incinerated over the Pacific...