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Bridell’s unexpected discovery wasn’t the only one made by Harvard students who breached the Iron Curtain that year...
When Burke K. Zimmerman ’58 was studying iron meteorites to determine the date of origin of the solar system as a research assistant at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), he said he never thought others would be using stopwatches to compute the orbit of Sputnik, the Soviet satellite sent into orbit the fall of his senior year...
...While Harvard is often portrayed as a bubble isolated from its surroundings, one has only to step outside the wrought-iron gates to realize that the University is not an island, but rather a plot of land contiguous with the rest of Cambridge...
...recalls. "Everybody was laughing and singing." But just after 1 a.m., the Estonia suddenly listed starboard 30°, hurling passengers, vending machines and flowerpots across its passageways. In the bar, almost everyone fell violently against the side of the boat. Härstedt managed to grab on to the iron bar railing and hold on, hanging above everyone else...
...also crawling packets of nutrition. A 100-gram (3.5 oz.) portion of cooked Usata terpsichore caterpillars--commonly eaten in central Africa--contains about 28 grams (1 oz.) of protein, slightly more than you'd get from the same amount of chicken. Water bugs have four times as much iron as beef...