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...want to get a true sense of how thoroughly�Hurricane Katrina punished the Gulf Coast last week, a flyover by helicopter or Air Force One won't do it. The real picture doesn't resolve itself until you go 450 miles up, where a flock of Earth-observing satellites have been training their cameras on the Gulf of Mexico and beaming what they see back home. Researchers at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge began studying the first portfolio of pictures taken since the hurricane hit last week, and what they saw was a shock. Entire barrier islands are missing...
...head of San Francisco?s Housing Authority. But the whispers about his predatory sexual appetite (which devoured parishioners of both sexes) and his reluctance to let disaffected members leave the fold caught the attention of the authorities. Jones moved the Temple to the Guyanan jungle, out of which his flock built an impressive village, Jonestown, housing thousands of Temple worshipers and their families. In a newsreel clip, Jones shows off the stocks of food he has amassed: meats, vegetables, Kool...
...innuendo, and even a short dance clip of The Robot unobtrusively sidled into line among the lyrical lines of the translation. The War on Terror, Yale University, and the “avian flu”—all were cunningly brought out onto the stage. When a flock of angry birds closed in around the enterprising Peisetaerus and Euelpides, a hysterical Euelpides broke into song, in a desperate attempt to placate their attackers. His choice of song?—“Feed the Birds” from Walt Disney’s “Mary...
...claims are unfounded or exaggerated, but the important fact is that they—despite their abundance—have had no noticeable effect on the outside world’s perception of Harvard’s polished veneer. Why then, do the best and the brightest continue to flock to Harvard? Some come for a specific scientist, others come for the squash team, but most, I wager, come for the fulfillment of definition “b”: a network and a job. In all of Harvard’s history, these two aspects...
Along the way they join forces with a flock of talking birds and build a “perfect” city in the clouds. Pisthetairos and Euelpides’ heavenly abode ultimately devolves into a dictatorship, and Pisthetairos commandeers sufficient power to depose Zeus as king of the gods...