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After spending sophomore in a palatial Leverett room, Matchett was pretty bummed when his junior year accomodations were a serious downgrade. “Well, last year I was in a tight double, and I built a similar loft, without the pulleys, and it was pretty easy to disassemble and put in storage. It adds a little space and a bit of something else to the room,” Matchett says. “The pulleys were really just...
...Russia and China possess by far the most nukes that could incinerate the U.S., the Administration says its shield isn't so much for protection from them but to defend against the possibility that a nasty regime in North Korea or Iraq or Iran will soon be able to loft a missile at America. A nuke is more likely to come in a suitcase than on a warhead, but the hurry-up argument doesn't deal with that fact. "We're already too late," says an aide...
Just east of the Sanlitun area, the ever-expanding Loft, a spot popular with chuppies, is a study in mixed metaphors. Its TV-lined industrial interior sports metal-tube chairs inspired by traditional Chinese designs, and a sizable dance floor. Go through the small art gallery to reach a tented beer garden where a lone cellist plays on a balcony, occasionally obscured by smoke from the barbecue. A couple of caveats: some regulars complain the sound system needs an overhaul, and the crowds tend to move on by midnight. But if beer and kebabs are your thing, call...
...gathering. A volunteer reads the 12 steps and traditions, and then a guest speaker - in this case, a 29- year-old who has been sober for 11 years - shares his story. John, a computer applications designer who, with his wife, is considering buying a $1 million loft in Greenwich Village, talks about how alcohol and drugs caused him to lose scholarships to Harvard and Princeton. Once, he says, his sister found him on the bathroom floor with no pulse, resuscitated him - and watched him head out the door to the next party...
...launch gods cooperate this Saturday, a rocket will blast off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and loft a Soyuz capsule into space. A day or so later, the capsule will rendezvous and dock with the International Space Station (ISS)--thus earning a place in the annals of space history. For aboard that Soyuz craft, along with two Russian cosmonauts, will be a 60-year-old American millionaire named Dennis Tito. Amateurs have flown in space before--including three U.S. congressmen, a Russian politician, a Japanese TV reporter and a Saudi prince--but Tito will be the first paying tourist...