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...years earlier, but by 1848 the country was wired, from Boston to New York City to Washington to Chicago and New Orleans. Again, the shift was sudden and profound--from days or weeks to send a message to instantaneous communication. Today we take for granted synchronized one-hour time zones as a kind of natural fact, but only after trains and the telegraph had connected distant cities were the U.S.'s time zones reduced from dozens to four...
...reliving that 24-hour work experience. "Friends think I'm sold on the Kool-Aid," she says. "But at midnight there are others working alongside me. Here I have the energy like I'm working with my family: you butt heads sometimes, but at the end of the day you're all about sink or swim...
...Idol” season seven. Or, actually, go on any reality TV show—they seem to love Harvard students. 5) Design your own “start-up company” (i.e., lemonade stand). 6) Do business school and psych studies all summer long. Guaranteed $15 an hour. 7) Get some mileage out of that History of Art and Architecture coursework: Write a “Da Vinci Code” knock-off. 8) Put your online poker skills to the test: Go to Las Vegas and win your first million. Or lose next year?...
...mail, Jenny writes, “On the one hand, it’s really nice to be able to interrupt the professor and ask questions at any time...On the other hand, it’s hard to have to focus at every moment of a two hour class, especially when you’re used to being one of 600 or so in Sanders Theater.” Hopefully next year there will be more spectroscopically curious freshmen. In the meantime: Jenny, keep up the good work—after all, you are the class average...
...hour flight marked the first international deployment of the F-22, which is destined to replace the aging F-15 Eagle as the Air Force's top fighter plane. But about a third of the way through the Feb. 10 flight, anomalies began affecting the Global Positioning System and communications links on the jets, Air Force officials say. While one pilot was able to contact prime contractor Lockheed Martin during the flight to try to fix the problem, the planes were nevertheless forced to return to Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii. They forlornly had to follow...