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...attend Harvard. The planner states, “Never invite a person whom you have met on the street, in a bar, or in another public place back to your room.” Following this logic would negate one of the main reasons for going to Harvard: the H-Bomb. How else is a Harvard guy supposed to get some action if he can’t drop one to some girl from BU? No, seriously, how? Some of our editors want to know...
Experts were quick to allay any public concern that such an accident might set off the missile warheads. A nuclear device, unlike older conventional explosives, cannot be detonated simply by a physical shock. The fission and then fusion reactions that must occur to explode an H-bomb can take place only if the weapon is armed electronically, which cannot happen accidentally. The warheads in the damaged tube "were obviously blown apart in the force of the explosion," says Vice Admiral Powell Carter Jr., director of the Joint Staff. Whether their remnants burned up or sank to the bottom...
...Lowe ’05 knows how to get himself noticed. Whether touring dining halls to promote his new band or posing for H-Bomb in black leather chaps and red chili pepper lights, the 27-year-old British-born senior is always on, according to his closest friends...
Given the buzz the band’s music alone has produced (radio stations as far away as Italy have given extensive play to their album), it seems like whipping out the H-Bomb would be superfluous at best. Indigo Girl Amy Ray was so taken with the band’s sound, upon hearing their debut album “Presenting the Great Unknowns” (released in December 2004) she almost immediately had them signed to her label, Daemon Records...
Outside the U.S., and particularly the northeastern seaboard, dropping the H-Bomb has a much less pleasant effect. Whereas in New York, “Harvard” brings an “oh, you must be so smart,” elsewhere it often brings a raised eyebrow and an “oh, you must be so rich”—or just a raised eyebrow...