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...chill of the cold war, the Soviet Union is said to have loaded enough germs and viruses, including smallpox, aboard intercontinental ballistic missiles targeted on the U.S. to infect an entire city, a tactic Saddam Hussein is thought to have tried to copy on a more modest scale with rocket-borne smallpox "bombs" that could hit targets up to 70 miles away. He never used them. Not that restraint has always been practiced. During World War II, Japanese planes dropped plague-infested fleas on Chinese and Soviet targets, while Britain plotted to kill German cattle with anthrax...
...three Harvard amigos actually wrote their first project in 1958, a comedy about the ongoing space race called “Countdown!,” which debuted in 1960 as a “modest production” in Leverett House. Carl remembers, “I grew up in a home with musical theater–my father was a piano player, and I sang in the high school Glee Club, so I knew about 2000 songs by the time I got here. I then found Steve [Price] who loved musical theater as well, and we got together...
Paulette Lind cobbled together a pretty good living by working two jobs. By day, the 49-year-old single mom worked full time in a local hospital, drawing blood samples from patients awaiting surgery. That paycheck went to cover the mortgage on her modest Minneapolis, Minn., home. To pay other bills--including parochial-school tuition for daughter Amy, 13--Lind worked 21 hours a week at Davanni's Pizza, a supplier of Northwest Airlines' domestic in-flight meals, where she earned $9 an hour...
After intermission came Modest Mussorgky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, that perennial favorite among pianists and orchestras (in Ravel’s orchestration). What can be offered to this piece that hasn’t already been done? Not much, but Kissin played the work like he owned it. Particularly effective was his powerful left hand in the “Bydlo (Oxen)” movement, as well as the simple lyricism of the opening “Promenade” theme and later in the “Con Mortuis in Lingua Mortua?...
...movies, futons and dinners out with friends. Sall Donahue and the Financial Aid office retort that they include a predetermined amount in every student’s “expected contribution” to cover personal expenses. However, Donahue admits to using “a modest personal allowance in deciding how much aid you will receive. Obviously, you can’t buy lots of music, furniture for your room, or a new wardrobe and stay within this conservative limit. Our advice is to be cautious about your spending since you are on a tight budget which must...