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Humanities faculty also have qualms about extending the current non-concentration advising apparatus, says Peter Machinist, the acting head tutor for near eastern languages and civilizations...
...meeting of advisors a couple of weeks ago. Several of us from different quarters had a little hesitation about delaying [concentration declaration] too much because if you start the requirement too late, you’re not going to be able to do anything serious,” says Machinist, the Hancock professor of Hebrew and other Oriental languages. “In our field, you can’t start a language in your junior year...
...blasting. Omya says it holds dynamiting to a minimum: just a couple of detonations a week, in late morning or midafternoon. But dynamite is dynamite, and when it blows it's hard to hide it. "I live 1,100 feet from a quarry," says Bill Church, 46, a machinist at the local General Electric plant. "Walls rattle; it's a real problem...
...veteran, formerly stationed at Fort Lewis in Washington State. According to the Associated Press, after serving in the Louisiana National Guard from 1978 to 1985, Muhammad served in the U.S. Army between November 1985 and April 1996, joining the Oregon National Guard in 1995. He trained as a machinist and combat engineer, according to military sources, and received a badge for his excellence in marksmanship. He never received formal sniper training. His police record is clean, the Associated Press reports, except for a few minor traffic violations in Washington...
Evanovich grew up in South River, N.J., where her father was a machinist and her mother a housewife. She met her husband Pete in high school and married him in college. She then had a daughter and son and followed Pete, who has a Ph.D. in mathematics, as he changed postings in the Navy. "I loved being a housewife," she recalls. "I thought it was very creative. You got to make things--cooking, baking, sewing. I got to color in coloring books with the kids and build forts out of blocks." But she couldn't shake a nagging desire...