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...Cambridge and on our campus, the morning hours were particularly frightening, when news was scarce and phone systems were overloaded by frantic calls home. Students registering for the semester tried to spend as little time as possible in the Yard, fearing that it, too, might come under attack. Suddenly every parked truck became a car bomb, every University building a potential target; a number of buildings, including William James Hall, were closed for fear of renewed violence. House common rooms filled with students who watched the coverage together; grief and shock were apparent on the eyes of many who were...
...Pentagon in Washington are incomprehensible—for their infamy and not for some abstract sense of evil, but because I have a friend who worked in the financial district of New York, and I don’t know if he is alive. Residents in my house made frantic telephone calls to check on the health of parents who were visiting the Pentagon. Yesterday is simply incomprehensible because, for the first time, I felt an irrational fear each time an F-16 fighter plane passed over Cambridge and wondered if, this time, the terror would come...
...most bustling spot on campus is the computer center, which offers the open space and frantic energy of a brokerage trading floor. Most Seattle Central students don't have their own computers, so they come here to work, socialize and surf the Web. They also come for the free tutoring--a program that college President Charles Mitchell credits with keeping many freshmen from dropping out. This is where Dora Hunter, 37, a business-technology student, became friends with fellow freshman Nhu-y Pham, 60, who came to Seattle from Vietnam...
...harried office worker and Lau as the playboy she reforms, was the biggest Hong Kong grosser since The Storm Riders in 1998. Help!!! (it was a big summer for punctuation), a hospital drama, mixed cynicism and sentiment in crowd-pleasing proportions. For New Year they offered the gorgeous, frantic, virtually all-girl Wu Yen, with Cheng as a warrior, Cecilia Cheung as an elfin enchantress and Anita Mui as both a King and his grandfather; it was the season's second-highest grossing film. Then came Love on a Diet, a romance about two grossly obese people determined to lose...
Educators are finding that labyrinths have benefits for children too. "Kids, like adults, are leading very frantic lives," says Marge McCarthy, 71, a retired school psychologist who has consulted on the building of labyrinths in seven schools in Santa Fe, N.M., in the past two years. She recalls an eight-year-old writing that when he walked, he felt "relaxed, small, kind of in and not out." Another liked having a "big circle around me" while he was in that place kids love to be--the center...