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...1930s and China two decades later were scarcely known outside their borders. But more recently the world has become too interconnected for deception of that magnitude. In 1986, when a nuclear reactor exploded at Chernobyl, in Ukraine, the Soviet government initially tried to keep it quiet. But when Geiger counters in Scandinavia went haywire, Moscow had to come clean. This year the truth about SARS emerged after citizens infected in China traveled outside the country--and after the groundbreaking reporting of TIME and other international publications...
Like its coed counterparts, the women’s team struggled at its second site. Sailing close to home at MIT on the familiar waters of the Charles River for the Geiger Trophy, the Crimson took a third seventh-place finish on the weekend. Although the team finished behind river rivals MIT (second) and BU (third), the success of freshmen Jess Baker and Liza Covington in the A boat bodes well for Harvard. The members the class of 2006 finished in third...
...normally graces the stages of Broadway and the Hollywood screen—but last Friday, actor Mandy Patinkin simply relaxed in the Winthrop House Junior Common Room. Patinkin, best known for his endearing roles as Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride, Dr. Jeffrey Geiger on “Chicago Hope” and Che Guevera in a Tony-award winning performance of Evita, spent two days at Harvard answering students’ questions and lending his expert advice in two master classes. While relating the ups and downs of his own path to success, Patinkin expressed a true desire...
...monuments to people who safeguarded our freedom. The D.C. hazardous-materials team, which used to be a part-time unit, now has more money than it knows what to do with. The fire chiefs have stormed the attics of the capital's municipal firehouses, dug the cold war-era Geiger counters out of their green canvas bags--some still bearing the old Civil Defense logo--and shipped them off to New Jersey for recalibration. Some of the counters' handbooks are dated 1963. All that's missing is a solemn voice intoning, "Everyone, remain calm...