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When the Bush administration was warned after Sept. 11 that Osama bin Laden might have some type of nuclear device, it knew where to turn for help: the Nuclear Emergency Support Team, a secretive unit within the Department of Energy. Last January the Administration quietly ordered NEST to launch periodic searches for a "dirty bomb" in Washington and other large U.S. cities. Administration officials tell Time that the NEST teams aren't dispatched to urban areas because of any specific threat received. Instead, almost every week the FBI randomly selects several cities for visits by NEST, which comprises some...
Those who choose to live dangerously and try unapproved mixed-gender arrangements may face official wrath, even if their intentions are platonic. Matthew A. Romero ’02 and Susan P. Long ’02 tried to share a nest in Pforzheimer this fall, when rooming problems and sexuality issues within their blocking group led to it seemingly being “the only feasible arrangement.” Unfortunately, their resident tutor happened to live right across the hall and he immediately put an end to the violation. Romero and Long were made to move their belongings...
...don’t mean that you ate too much during intersession. But theses, like baby whales, have a very long gestation term. And everyone knows that you’ve been sitting on the nest all year long. So you start to feel that whatever comes out in the end sure as hell better be a whale. The prospect of anything less seems disastrous, and it paralyzes your capacity for work...
...addition, roadrunners, coyotes, wild pigs and over 350 species of fish nest in Harvard Square’s famed nature preserve...
...being absurdly self-absorbed and giving in to self-pity, and I wanted to just get out. So I told them what they wanted to hear. I took the medicine. I walked around with the bathrobe open in the a__, like in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. People were moaning and groaning all night, and I thought, Please, just let me get out of here, and I'll never be that stupid again...