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...across from the Post Office between Second and Third Streets look like a war zone. Where the sidewalks were, plywood planks support the braver pedestrians and piles of dirt and rubble spill out into the edges of the street. Seattle's fleet of mountain biking bicycle couriers have a heyday of dodging the construction runoff, but for most downtown traffic, the construction makes getting around that block an arduous task...
...increasingly competitive world of academic recruitment, an issue that was never a problem during the heyday of one-career families has come into focus as one of the most important challenges in recruiting new faculty members...
...years ago, they have spread rapidly throughout the New World. Honeybees typically pollinate 15% of the U.S.'s crops, but lately the bees have been hard hit. Already debilitated by a nasty mite infection, thousands of colonies were exterminated during last winter's unusually severe cold. During the honeybee heyday after World War II, the U.S. had nearly 6 million hives. Now there are less than half that many, and mites continue to plague the remaining colonies. "We are working desperately to produce resistant bee stocks," says Tom Linderer, who directs a honeybee breeding and genetics lab in Baton Rouge...
...bandstands, the jazz musicians of Kansas City swung through it all. Absorbed, imperturbable, they played within a sort of bubble of purity: theirs were the only disinterested passions in town. Or so it seems in Robert Altman's new film, Kansas City, set in the 1930s heyday of "Boss" Tom Pendergast, when an extraordinary concentration of jazz talent flourished in the city (and a wide-eyed Altman was growing up there...
...like the grin of the Cheshire Cat--the cat's gone and only the grin is still here," says Anthony G. Oettinger '51, a member of the Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction. "It's a pale shadow compared to the heyday under [then-president James B. Conant...