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...style is the product of 14 years of football, beginning in the Boston Pop Warner League and leading ultimately, via Newton North High and Andover, to Soldier's Field...
...Newton High there was really high intensity in the football program," Acheson says. "At Andover, football was very low key. I guess I learned at Andover to play in the proper perspective, playing more for my interest in the game than to satisfy...
...senior at Newton, Ach scored 13 touchdowns (for a total of 21 in two years on the varsity) to lead his team to the finals of the state championship. He seemed destined to continue his success in the Ivy League, until the fickle Harvard Admissions Office informed him he would have to spend an extra year doing postgraduate work at Andover before entering the Yard. Neither of his parents ever graduated from college, so Ach had already decided that he wanted a degree from Harvard...
...more than a year after graduating from Newton, Acheson finally arrived in Cambridge for his freshman football season. Within two months he had been introduced to the kind of frustrating experience that seems to set Harvard in general, and Harvard football in particular, apart from other universities. He destroyed his knee, and then spent his entire sophomore season hobbled by shin-splints...
...three 1981 physics winners were cited for contributions to spectroscopy, a basic tool for studying atoms and molecules that dates back to the moment when Sir Isaac Newton passed a beam of sunlight through a prism and found that it was split into a rainbow of colors, a spectrum. Newton's successors discovered that any material heated to incandescence not only produces a spectrum but one so distinctive that it could be used like a fingerprint for identifying the substance. Astronomers soon found that the spectra of distant stars yielded all manner of information, including the star...