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Emergency responders, however, make up only part of this constellation of radio stars. My scanner tracks the chatter of taxi transmissions after a Red Sox game and the gastronomic gurgle at McDonald’s restaurants. Even the school bus fleet makes for a fine show. On the first day of school, I listened to dozens of little kids board the wrong buses and forget how to get home. Each time, the dispatchers directed the drivers to return the kids to the schools even if that delayed the next pickup by an hour. Here was a group of people genuinely...

Author: By Jonathan P. Abel, | Title: Scanning the News | 6/8/2005 | See Source »

...Herons, the Bulldogs, the Trojans, and Harvard advanced out of round two of Gold Fleet Sailing with the Crimson in third, ahead...

Author: By Samuel C. Scott, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sailing Takes Fourth in Team Race Nationals | 6/7/2005 | See Source »

...squad sails through tomorrow in the team race national championships before, with little turnaround, sailing Wednesday through Friday in the fleet-racing dinghy championships...

Author: By Samuel C. Scott, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Snaps 33-Year Drought | 6/6/2005 | See Source »

...does not currently have the authority to enforce the existing ban, but the creation of a fleet of X-Wings is rumored in the works...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Space for Rent | 5/25/2005 | See Source »

This week marks the centenary of one of the most significant events in Japan's modern history, but you wouldn't know it walking Tokyo's streets. On May 27-28, 1905, Japan's fledgling navy soundly defeated Russia's Baltic Fleet, sinking 21 ships in two days and ending the bloody Russo-Japanese War. The Battle of Tsushima exploded the idea of European military superiority and established Japan as an Asian world power for the next four decades, until the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?just 200 km south of Tsushima?put an end to the Japanese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Quiet Anniversary | 5/23/2005 | See Source »

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