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...travel up the Rift valley, the scale and fury of Kenya's southern division becomes ever more apparent. We enter a village called Kamosong, and 15 men surround the car. One is carrying a foot-long knife, another a hockey stick, a third a bow and arrow, a fourth a wooden club. A man who introduces himself as Thomas tells us the men are from the Kalenjin tribe of former President Daniel Arap Moi. "Have you got anyone in the back?" they ask Preston. "What's your name? Are you Kikuyu?" A few minutes further on, there is another roadblock...
...then again, you can’t deny the college mantra: “Good food is cheap food.” Lee’s Sandwich Shop (61 Church Street) This hallway of a sandwich shop is as unpretentious as it gets in the Square, serving up foot-long warm and cold subs for less than $6. The one-size-fits-all soup cups are ladled to the brim with homemade daily specials and, at $2.95, are cheap enough to warm you every rainy Cambridge day of the school year. That’s a lot of soup...
...signed a record contract. And why he refuses to have lunch at the Ivy, where people go to be shot by paparazzi. "I can get an equally good sandwich at Quiznos: the honey mustard chicken sandwich with bacon on whole wheat. It's pretty cheap. If I buy a foot-long sandwich, it's like two meals." No, two made-for-TV movies and a role in Hairspray won't make you rich, but still, dude can buy a panini...
Last year, Harvard biologist Andrew A. Biewener and then-grad student Monica A. Daley made seven helmeted guinea fowl—birds similar to pheasants—dash down a 20-foot-long plywood runway. Not just any old plywood runway, mind you, but one equipped with a device that measures force and a high-speed digital video camera...
...they go right, you never see them. They have to go wrong. I'm pretty proud of the one in the movie where I ride a rocket like Wile E. Coyote and it explodes. A foot-long rod shot out of the side. If it had been four inches to the right it would have gone through...