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...with interesting and difficult exam problems without worrying that most students would be unable to answer them. Papers could be graded much more critically; even students would admit that the papers that we think are good are probably not the best pieces of academic scholarship. Once in a blue moon a student would meet these challenges and earn an A, and this would not demean the accomplishment of the B’s, C’s, and D’s earned by his or her peers...
...much a commandment as a tidbit of insider information that I, Chris Schonberger, finally feel at liberty to disclose: From time to time, the vending machine in the Canaday Common Room magically opens. I have my suspicions that it coincides with the “Harvest Moon.” I can’t be totally sure. You sort of have to have a sixth sense for it. Lucky for me, my freshman year roommate had the sickest “sixth sense” I’ve ever encountered. One time he looked at me with...
...however, Arugam Bay took the full force of the tsunami. Around 350 people died, many of them tourists sleeping off an all-night Christmas full-moon party. Thus, in a few minutes, the sea destroyed the very world that it had built. But surfers are a resilient lot. Before the tsunami, many braved Sri Lanka's civil war and Arugam Bay's previous lack of power or telephones to ride its magnificent waves. So even though the area is still recovering, with some buildings little more than piles of rubble, the surfers are back, many helping (both physically and financially...
Just where J.P.L.'s westward-ho push will take it next is not yet set. More missions to Mars are certain. Others to Pluto and Jupiter's moon Europa are possible. The still vague nature of these plans does not bother the veterans who know the lab best. "What we do here is try to figure out how impossible a task is and then we take it on," says Lee, a 30-year J.P.L. veteran. "The result is that we add to human knowledge. Now, can you have a better life...
...sought by both postcard collectors and stamp collectors. There's also a market for anything connected to transportation (think cruise-ship programs, trolley tickets and the like). Invitations to events like a presidential Inauguration are in demand. In fact, anything relating to topics of historical interest--a war, the moon landing, a World's Fair--can bring bucks. Even some old magazines can command a fair price at market (not National Geographic, however--too plentiful). Carbone recently sold more than 100 issues of Ladies' Home Journal from the 1890s, bundled in sets of six, for between...