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...machine, which looks like a seatless chair and can be steered by controls in its armrests. Each of these controls activates one or more of 24 jets that expel puffs of nitrogen gas. When McCandless fired jets on one side of the MMU, they provided a textbook example of Newton's third law ("For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction"): the astronaut was propelled the other...
Wolf brings collections to Countway which enable historians to research medicine from its beginnings to the present time. At its inception, medicine was essentially based upon the natural sciences; botany, geology, and mineralogy. Consequently, the Countway collection of rare books include works by Isaac Newton and Marie Curie. There are one thousand incunabula, numerous papers on inoculation by Madison and Jefferson, the "Gray's Anatomy," and a host of letters by early American doctors like Benjamin Rush and Joseph Warren from which modern clinicians pick up new medical methods of treatment. Even obsolete medical procedures like blood letting and stretching...
...their first exposure to Dean of the Faculty Watt at opening exercises. Gazing out at the assembled Class of '88, Watt muses. "I didn't know so many WASPs had red hair--or are some of you crossbred?" The Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society offer a Wayne Newton medley in place of the traditional "Fair Harvard" and "The Only Man at the Radcliffe Tea." For the first time in living memory, parents and freshmen do not leave during the songs...
...like what she sees on MTV ("The videos are like old Monkees shows. They're nonsense, a real waste of time and money"), but she is now writing a new album "as it should be done. I'm writing the video as I write the songs." Olivia Newton-John actually hired a video writer to run up a script for an album that will be planned around the resultant scenario. Songwriters will receive a précis and be asked to compose to order...
...love John Travolta in Moment by Moment? Did you swoon for Olivia Newton-John in Xanadu? Then you are a true connoisseur of incompetence, and you won't want to miss Two of a Kind. Five years ago, these two appealing stars teamed for the monster hit Grease. Now Writer-Director John Herzfeld has chosen a different 1978 hit to emulate and trash: Heaven Can Wait. God (the voice of Gene Hackman) sends a quartet of angels (led by Charles Durning) to earth to help a couple of mean-mouthed losers (guess who?). Nothing works: not the whimsy...