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...would like to add the following words of wisdom to the many you have already heard. The moment that Harvard will reward you is not the moment when you forge your greatest ties to the University, or even when you get that job or make that leap through the connections and thinking that you gained here, but rather the moment when something or someone that is distinctly non-Harvard-even though you might find that someone or something here-becomes more important to you than Harvard itself, when you succeed in taking what Harvard has given you, whether something...
...wish him to write a very long, nonfiction essay about the experience, to be required reading later in the course. (It would begin "Thunk! The brick felt heavy against my skull.") As soon as you sense danger, hurl the brick in the sock through a nearby window and leap out that window to make your escape. It is always best to wear rubber-soled running shoes to your Expos conferences. It's actually best to wear running shoes everywhere...
...winds as they press past slower moving gases, just as the eruptions of volcanoes on Earth are produced by the pressures created by motions of its great crustal plates rubbing against each other. By learning to track these winds, the researchers believe they can take a giant leap forward in the science of forecasting solar weather...
...cleared his desk, he was asked how he would like to be remembered. De Klerk reached higher than usual: "As a leader who prevented hundreds of thousands of deaths and who made a quantum leap that fundamentally changed our country for the better and brought justice to all South Africans." Fair enough...
...close-up human from digital scratch. But that day is surely coming. Computer graphics--CG, in industry shorthand--have already been used to create loosely rendered virtual stunt people suitable for brief action sequences. The buzz has it that James Cameron's forthcoming Titanic will represent a leap forward with its use of CG extras, detailed down to the misty breath they exhale in the cold night air, although one source who has seen completed footage from the film says the overall effect is less impressive as a visual than as a because-they-can declaration. Why not, when...