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...sick, cerebral thrill of ATMOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 241 pages), a dense, fractally complex first novel by the conspicuously talented Rivka Galchen, lies in watching a shrink, one of the trusted guardians of consensus reality, drift out of his lane and into oncoming traffic. Over and over again, Leo's finely calibrated mind analyzes the available data and arrives by the most rigorously logical methods at a series of increasingly demented conclusions. Which makes you realize, queasily, how worthless those methods were in the first place...
Back from his lane, Scherer told me he wished that more Harvard students seriously considered the Army and ROTC, noting that only he and one other cadet, J. Danielle Williams ’08, will commission in June...
...before such small jets were conceived, they are not required to carry the same collision-avoidance systems as larger jets. Alex Hendriks, Eurocontrol's deputy director of air-traffic management, compares the introduction of microjets to European airspace under these circumstances to dumping hundreds of mopeds into the fast lane of a motorway without sophisticated safety equipment. Microjet operators say they will hire experienced pilots, and insist that the planes' collision-avoidance software is sufficient...
...turn, so the crews start on a staggered start,” junior stroke Sarah Moore said. “We had a pretty good start, and we came off holding even with Yale at first. Virginia was harder to gauge as they were a full lane over. We were down almost about a length on each crew after they took a lot of length on the inside of the turn. We tried to handle them as best we could and stay internally focused and row our own race at our own rhythm.”“It?...
Come June, 24-year-old Japanese graduate student Yusuke Sakamoto will face an unusual final exam. While most of his classmates at Tokai University near Tokyo will be sweating out answers in a classroom, Sakamoto will be in pit lane at France's legendary Le Mans race track, hoping his 550-horsepower school project survives one of the world's great endurance races...