Word: outerness
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Though she’d never flown in an airplane before, Shazrene S. Mohamed ’04 had one destination in mind when she left Zimbabwe and headed for Harvard in September 2000: outer space...
...things rendered, in both senses of the word. Beautifully designed sequences show tentacles flying, wood splintering and people flailing desperately in the churning sea. Between the scenes of oceanic chaos come surprising and strange tableaus, as when the whale somehow transgresses the bounds of the earth and floats in outer space. You don't read "Leviathan" so much as give in to its visceral sensation. Harder depicts the angry cetacean as, among other things, a metaphor for our fears of nature. But, while quite fascinating to look at, I have to draw the line at the wildly steep cover price...
...SPACE FOR OUTER SPACE...
...Internet and saved $600,000 by buying them in Asia. Of all the changes in operating methods, some of the most productive have come in aircraft maintenance. Workers on MD-80 heavy overhauls realized they could reuse perfectly good windows, light bulbs and fasteners on the plane's outer skin without compromising safety. They saved $30,000 on each overhaul--trimming at least $5 million a year. Shop-floor workers in Tulsa, Okla., taking lean-manufacturing tips from a Toyota sensei, or master, trimmed time and inventory, freeing up room to in-source aircraft repair work from American Eagle...
...America's multimillion-dollar Superman industry, it's a serious problem. This is a guy who's from outer space--he was born on the planet Krypton, let's not forget--but he's also from another time. He debuted in the 1930s, when Americans liked their heroes like they liked their steaks: tough, thick and all-American. Nowadays we prefer our heroes dark and flawed and tragic. Look at the Punisher (wife and kids dead), or Hellboy (born a demon), or Spider-Man (secretly a nerd). Look at Batman: his parents were killed in front...