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...landed nearby. As Williams shows a visitor around her place, she apologizes for the darkness. The orphanage has a generator, but no gas. Williams shares a double bed on wooden slats with four babies. The older kids have metal-frame bunk beds. The mattresses, where they exist, are inch-thick foam pads. Rambunctious kids have torn down pieces of the straw ceiling. Daylight shines through the corrugated tin roof. Williams' main worries are food and medicine. During peacetime, she would get bulgur wheat from the World Food Program. Now she gets nothing. The price of a bag of rice...
That voracity for knowledge is a feeling I have been rediscovering every day this summer, as I inch along on thesis research. A project that I began early—mostly out of fear—has quickly become the centerpiece of my summer, an opportunity to investigate the topic I like best at a pace of my own choosing. Deadlines now hidden away on syllabi in last year’s binders, I create my own schedule, deciding which books I will read and when...
...escape procedures, including the Aces II ejection seat that, if activated, would give me a 95 percent chance of escaping alive. The seat thrusts the body from the plane at an unfathomable 150 Gs per second, compressing the spine so much that a person sometimes comes out a half-inch shorter. Better to be 6-foot-1 1/2 than dead, I reasoned. The seat also packs a parachute, set to open below 14,000 feet. Noting that Pike's Peak is approximately that height, I asked what would happen if I ejected there. "They'd be cleaning you up with...
Whitesides pioneered developments in organic molecular self-assembly that have led to advances in material sciences and technology. His research in the field has been used to build devices millionths of an inch in size...
...Lehigh County, Pa. Incident: A silver dagger with a four-inch blade was brought into the Old Lehigh County Courthouse by the siblings of a convicted murderer Security: A metal detector was present, but only outside the courtroom, not in the building lobby...