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After college and a brief stint at the Oak Ridge School of Reactor Technology, he headed directly for Harvard and has spent little time away since. After a 1953 Ph.D., and a few years spent with the Federal government--unsurprisingly, during an energy crisis--he returned to the University...
...determine how it is connected to other fissures in the region. To do this, the scientists will have to track the locations of hundreds of aftershocks, a lengthy and tedious process. At first it was thought that the quake might have resulted from a previously unmapped extension of the Oak Ridge Fault, which angles past the city of Ventura and into the Pacific Ocean. But as researchers fanned out through the San Fernando Valley, other theories emerged, including the possibility that the fault was not connected to any known system. Observes geophysicist Mark Zoback of Stanford University: "Individually these faults...
...father, in addition to raising cows and sheep, was a serious musician who collected folk songs and taught at a nearby women's college. His mother, who educated him at home until he was nine, wrote plays, which were performed at a small theater the couple started in an oak grove on their farm. "When Francis was seven," his father recalls, "he wrote a full script for The Wizard of Oz and directed its performance." He played bluegrass and Bach on the pump organ and guitar, and he would spend hours pondering the consequences of dividing numbers by zero...
Braving the sort of cold Cambridge rain our group has grown accustomed to, we met in the oak-panelled Dunster House dining hall for Sunday brunch. Our gathering was of old comrades, one of whom had recently returned from adventures on the Continent, and another of whom had trekked to the river's edge from distant Cabot House. Over cerebral, though spirited conversation, we prepared a tasty meal of robust proportions from food ordinarily available on the salad bar. Desirous of exploiting the fresh ingredients provisioned by the helpful corps of dining hall staff, we selected simple comestibles. Each recipe...
...doorstop best sellers go, Herman Wouk's melodramas The Winds of War and War and Remembrance were tolerable entertainment. The historical framework of World War II was well enough known that the author could focus on the adventures of his solid-oak characters without having to teach history. That's not true of The Hope (Little, Brown; 693 pages; $24.95), Wouk's earnest novel about Israel's first two decades, beginning with the fight for independence in 1948 and carrying through...