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Maxwell spends eight hours a day in P Tunnel, a shaft resembling a semifinished subway excavation 1,300 feet below Rainier Mesa. A narrow-gauge electric locomotive takes workers into the tunnel, which ends in a rocky cul- de-sac 1 1/2 miles away. Bare light bulbs dangle overhead, and the brilliant flare of a welder's torch flickers on the rock walls. Labyrinthine cables coil along the floor, and the tunnel reverberates with a sometimes deafening din, punctuated by shouts and horn blasts. In an eerily normal scene near ground zero, a surveyor chats on a Touch-Tone wall...
...future test in P Tunnel will send a blast of radiation through a vacuum- tight steel casing to simulate a nuclear explosion 300 miles deep in space. Parts of the tunnel will collapse, and tons of irradiated rock will hurtle through the pipe, but the explosion should remain contained, thanks to seven giant doors. The last barrier, a mile distant, is a gas-sealed door made to withstand temperatures of 500 degrees F and pressures...
...SYNC tore up your heart or you actually belived that the Backstreet Boys were larger than life, then you’re in luck: Harvard will soon have a popstar coterie of its very own. Peter C. Shields Jr. ’09 and Silas P. Howland ’08 are recruiting for a group of five pop performers to satisfy the “guilty pleasure” that Shields says Harvard students take in listening to pop music. “I know all these people that will hate on pop, and then as soon...
...Miller ’09, social chair; and Kristen M. Jones ’08, secretary. The past week also saw the Harvard Black Men’s Forum elect its executive board for the 2006-2007 school year. Charles J. Hamilton III ’07 and Michael P. Anderson ’08 were elected president and vice president, respectively. Other winners were Lumumba B. Seegars ’09, brotherhood chair; Xavier DelRosario ’09, social chair; Brandon K. Arrindell ’08, treasurer; and Felix Koskey ’09, secretary...
...American Indians,” said NAHC President Leah R. Lussier ’07. Lussier added that the group was disappointed especially because most other ethnic groups were granted office space, whether single or shared. The Harvard College Democrats was another group that was dissatisfied. Dems President Eric P. Lesser ’07 said the group applied for the largest office space available, but received a significantly smaller assignment.“I don’t know what usefulness this office is going to have for us. It’s completely different from what we applied...