Word: jim
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...starters, NASCAR chairman Bill France was once in the Navy, and his brother Jim, also involved with NASCAR, served in the Army. There is a fly-over by military aircraft prior to almost every race. In addition, the Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, National Guard and Civil Air Patrol all sponsor racecars. To list just a few: the Army sponsors Jerry Nadeau’s car; the Navy sponsors Jon Wood’s; the Marine Corps sponsors Bobby Hamilton, Jr.’s; the Air Force is an associate sponsor of Ricky Rudd?...
...revivals seem worth the effort. It was probably too soon to bring back A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Peter Nichols' 1967 play about a couple with a severely retarded child (it had a perfectly good revival in 1985 starring Stockard Channing and Jim Dale), but its brutally unsentimental treatment of a touchy subject, the experiments in narrative and a galvanizing performance by comedian Eddie Izzard give it the immediacy of a spring thunderstorm. And a revival of Flower Drum Song earlier this season gave that politically incorrect Rodgers and Hammerstein musical about Chinese Americans a smart...
...viruses and other microscopic organisms do. It's these "self-replicating nanobots" that have stirred Prince Charles' concern. But most nanoscientists believe that such devices, if they're viable at all, are decades away. "The idea that they are going to take over biological systems is absolutely silly," says Jim A. Thomas, a Royal Society University fellow who is researching molecular self-assembly, suggesting that even if self-replication were possible it's likely to be on a scale that's pretty harmless. A more realistic fear, at least for many who actually work in the field, is that unfounded...
While freshman proctors are meant to watch over their students, Jim Freeman, who has been a tutor in Kirkland House for two years, says that the role of a tutor is sometimes better described as an “academic role model.” Tutors receive a few days of training in the fall and have mandatory monthly meetings, he says, but are not specifically responsible keeping tabs on every individual in their entryway...
Kublai Khan might have built a pleasure dome in Xanadu—but Jim Weatherall ’05 and Runal Mehta ’03-’04 have their own big designs in the works. The two have been working for months to found the new campus magazine, Xanadu, which will feature creative student fiction and non-fiction...