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...days that Harvard’s non-denominational church holds memorial services, Richard D. Campbell, The Memorial Church’s sexton, climbs up narrow and steep staircases, ascends a thin metal ladder, and smashes a half-ton clapper into Harvard’s two-ton bell, high up in the church tower. Down below, three dorms full of freshman students cover their ears and try to fall back asleep...
...gilding of the nation's temples is an aspect of one of mankind's great investment obsessions: the Indian love of gold. The country buys at least one-fifth of the global gold supply each year, making it the world's largest consumer of the metal. Experts believe that 15,000 to 20,000 tons of bars, ingots and jewelry is locked up in India's bank vaults and household safes. Indians are furiously adding to that horde. The World Gold Council estimates gold buying in India was up nearly 33% to 850 tons in 2005. The increase...
...What happened?" he asked. None of the villagers answered. George later located one of the women, who was living under a splintered door propped against a boulder. She explained that village men had stolen the plastic tarps and metal sheeting that formed the walls and roofs. "The men were going to beat us, so we ran," she wailed. Outraged by this injustice, George cajoled villagers to collect fallen timber and started building a new shelter that should help her survive a brutally cold winter. "Not what I'd call a deluxe chalet," he said after completing the structure...
...famous Bacchus from Lowell Bacchanalia. He moonlights as a Lowell Psych concentrator from Washington, MO. We sat him down, set his iPod on shuffle and recorded his reactions. 1. Apocalyptica—“Sanitarium (Welcome Home)” This group is awesome! They play metal on four cellos. I saw them in concert earlier this semester and they are even better live. They started out covering Metallica, and those covers are their best. 2. Enya—“Wild Child” Well, that’s embarassing. Let’s pretend like that...
...Because they evacuated the airplane from the back Beshears was among the last to deplane. All the passengers exited the plane with their hands on their heads, even as they walked down the metal steps to the tarmac, he says. Bomb-sniffing dogs greeted them on the ground...