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...Longfellow House contains authentic period furniture--ornate candelabras, a Dutch grandfather clock from 1750, marble busts and portraits in gold frames--which fill musty rooms, spacious by today's standards...
...from time to time, and he does: "The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone." Full stop. Paragraph break. While this astonishment reverberates, he goes on methodically to discuss orogeny, which is mountain building (benthic refers to the ocean bottom). He was an English major who had written about gold mining in Alaska without, as he admits, knowing how the gold got there to be mined. Neither did the miners. But he pestered geologists for an explanation, and had the good luck to apply his high-RAM mind to their answers at a time when geology was in flux...
Eight current Harvard affiliate are among next year's Bunting fellows: Blair; Patricia Blake; Associate Professor of Epidemiology Marlene Gold-man; Diane Hoffman-Kim; Loretta Mickley; Assistant Professor of Surgery Marsha Moses; Suzanne Romaine, and Research Associate in Medicine Ellen Weinberg...
...this is a casino, open all day, with high-low dice games, blackjack and bingo. Laid-off workers crowd the tables, spending their last renminbi on a few rolls of the dice. The casino is run by an overweight Hong Konger who wears expensive jeans and a heavy gold watch but doesn't want to give his real name. Neither do his two formidable-looking bodyguards. "I had to put in a lot of money to get this," he says, watching the flow of chips across the dice table, "mostly to pay off the local officials. And they will probably...
...with such traditional contests as street luge, skateboarding and in-line skating, the Olympics-style event at San Diego's placid Mission Bay Park includes barefoot waterskiing, sky surfing and big-air snowboarding (yes, it's a summer event). More than 450 athletes from 27 countries will compete for gold medals in 28 events that NASA wouldn't let a monkey try. Last year 14 million amped kids watched, and more are expected to tune in this time to the 11-day event. Sponsors counting on this include Adidas, AT&T, Chevrolet and the U.S. Marines, who couldn't invent...