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...information to decide where to go: how dark it is and how many of their friends are there. At first, the roaches will wander arbitrarily into one shelter or the other - but at some point, enough of them will end up under one shelter to reach a critical mass, which then becomes more attractive to the others...
...critical-mass hypothesis has merit, Halloy and his co-workers figured they should be able to trick the roaches into doing something unnatural. To do that, they would need a rogue roach to infiltrate the herd. "One way to get them," Halloy says, "would be to create mutants somehow, with abnormal behavior. But we don't have a genetic institute for cockroaches." Instead, the researchers recruited some engineers to build them roach robots that would slip into the crowd and manipulate it from within. "It turns out," he says, "that roaches aren't very discriminating" - they'll accept anything...
...contribute to Lithuanian development. One day I’m going to go back and do something there.” CHOOSING TO SERVEMany students and graduates are using public service as an avenue to effect brain gain in America. David L. Tannenwald ’08, of Newton, Mass., has interned in the public sector and is currently exploring career fields for post-graduation life. “I’d be shocked if whatever I do doesn’t involve public service,” he says. His work on John F. Kerry?...
Somewhere between the Kong and the Crêperie, a revolution may be stirring. Revolution Books has inhabited various Cambridge locations since its founding in 1979. Today, it resides at 1156 Mass. Ave., where a black door and narrow set of stairs leads visitors up to a room crowded floor-to-ceiling with books. The bookstore was founded by the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), USA, an organization whose agenda is to overthrow the capitalist system, guide society through socialism, and implant communism. “The mission of the store is to bring revolutionary politics to the people...
...Free samples of Stride gum?” asked the two pretty blondes standing outside of the Mass. Ave. CVS last Wednesday afternoon. Passers-by were offered colorful handfuls of sample-sized gum by pairs of young women stationed on either side of the street. Some hold their hands out mechanically to receive the gum, barely breaking their stride, while others ignore the women completely: preoccupied, irritated, or just utterly uninterested. On any given day, the odds of finding freebies of some sort around the intersection of Mass. Ave. and JFK St. are fairly good. While this sort of marketing...