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...Fogg's collection operates on a leap year schedule...
...union representing Harvard's security guards, parking attendants and Fogg Museum guards yesterday lodged a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) alleging that the University violated federal labor laws and is negotiating in bad faith...
...novel Around the World in Eighty Days, Phileas Fogg employed all manner of transport--steamers, railways, yachts, carriages, trading vessels, sledges and even elephants. But no balloon. It was Hollywood, not Jules Verne, that sent the intrepid Brit off in that aircraft. Trivia, you say? But there was nothing trivial about the real-life fulfillment of what seemed to be quixotic fantasy last week in Northern Africa. In a 180-ft.-high balloon, a silvery dare in the air, two adventurers--Swiss psychiatrist Bertrand Piccard, 41, and British balloon instructor Brian Jones, 51--completed their tour of the world...
...Verne's novel asks of Fogg: "What had he brought back from this long and weary journey? Nothing, say you?" The names Piccard and Jones may not strike the same chords as Columbus or Magellan or Lindbergh or Armstrong. Indeed, last weekend's achievement is literally lighter than air. But Piccard and Jones have won the last world-spanning contest of our era. And now they are history...
...There is no way I could live in Cambridge. A one-bedroom apartment would cost more than 50 percent of my take-home pay," says M. Steve Fritz, a Fogg Museum central station monitor who makes $11.85 an hour...