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When the plane hit Elia Zedeno's building on 9/11, the effect was not subtle. From the 73rd floor of Tower 1, she heard a booming explosion and felt the building actually lurch to the south, as if it might topple. It had never done that before, even in 1993 when a bomb exploded in the basement, trapping her in an elevator. This time, Zedeņo grabbed her desk and held on, lifting her feet off the floor. Then she shouted, "What's happening?" You might expect that her next instinct was to flee. But she had the opposite reaction...
...HEXAPOD. A six-legged manned vehicle that resembles a cross between a giant grasshopper and an Erector Set horse. Planned for use over hilly, rocky or swampy areas that would bog down jeeps and tanks, the l0-ft.-tall Hexapod is designed to lurch along at up to 8 m.p.h. by taking 9-ft. steps. Clint Kelly III, director of DARPA's Office of Engineering Application, calls the gawky-looking device the most technologically advanced off-road vehicle ever constructed...
...these arguments are misguided. Yale-style housing would neither improve first-year advising nor the first-year social experience. Advising within the Houses is not perfect. Concentrations have shifted much of their advising duties to a limited amount of resident and non-resident tutors, leaving many students in a lurch. Integrating first-year students into the already strained system would yield no tangible positive results. In addition, those students assigned to the Quad would have a harder time accessing advising resources than their counterparts assigned to the River...
...revenue for supposed contracts to renovate distressed housing. When the FBI finally unraveled the scheme, Minkow managed to pay off his Mafia loan sharks ("You can't mess with them," he says), but some $300 million worth of company stock was suddenly worthless, leaving hundreds of investors in the lurch...
Bush's epithet slinging was a flop in all three debates. Not because the nation has taken a lurch to the left--Kennedy remains the anachronistic embodiment of a welfare-state liberalism long discarded by the American public. No, it was more likely that the President had overdosed on invective during the long, long course of this election year and the public has become inured to it. Kerry helped that process along by his demeanor throughout (with the exception of his gratuitous mention of the Vice President's gay daughter). The Senator's dignity and consistency made Bush's attacks...