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...DIED. THEODORE TAYLOR, 79, theoretical physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory during the cold war who specialized in designing smaller, more powerful atom bombs - and then became a fierce antinuclear campaigner; in Silver Spring, Maryland. His "Davy Crockett" - a 23-kg device that fit in a suitcase - outpowered the lab's 4,091-kg "Little Boy" bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima. In the mid-1960s Taylor, alarmed at the proliferation of the devices, became a self-described "nuclear dropout." "My work at Los Alamos had been so intellectually stimulating but so insane," he said...
Well, guess what? My first lab report was seven pages long, single-spaced, and was accompanied by two illustrations done completely on the computer. Who needs hand-drawn figures when you can include high-resolution vector graphics from Adobe Illustrator outputted in EPS format for inclusion in a PostScript document? Who wants to use ordinary ol’ Microsoft Word and Excel when you can use PSTricks and LaTeX to generate book-quality pages? Who wants to spend four to eight hours cranking out this lab report when you can spend nine to fourteen hours?...
...PostScript-generated graph that is far fancier than anything Excel could make. “Well laid out!” as a general comment at the end of the report, right next to the big fat number telling me that I got full credit on this lab...
...full credit even without the elaborately formatted tables and painstakingly crafted illustrations? Sure. But that would not have been realizing my potential. I have the tools and the skills, so why not use them, even if it does mean spending an extra few hours or so working on the lab report? I was concurrently watching Game Seven of the ALCS between the Red Sox and Yankees anyway, so it’s not like I was wasting my time; I was simply making more efficient...
...various clubs or group activities. Her laundry list includes: The Taiwanese Cultural Society, Harvard Progressive Advocacy Group, Chinatown Citizenship, The Bach Society Orchestra, Delta Gamma Sorority, BASIC (Boston Asian Students Intercollegiate Conference), The People of Color Caucus with the Harvard Social Forum, Kirkland Grille and the Kirkland Media Lab...