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Donated by the athletics department and the Friends of Harvard Golf in fall 2005, the Full Swing Golf LS Golf 3 plunks top notch golf courses and practice facilities into cyberspace, with the help of a projection screen and a little patch of Astroturf. The simulator’s 688 sensors calculate the speed, size, and angle of every golf ball hit, in real time. Virtual duffers can customize their playing experience by adjusting wind speed, green hardness, sky type, and crowd volume...

Author: By Emily C. Graff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Golf Simulator is a Hit | 11/15/2006 | See Source »

...enthusiastic hugs at the door, wild mwahhing across the auditorium, and a palpable oozing of excitement. Kristina R. Yee ’10, had “been anticipating the premiere all week!”—and came prepared with Tealuxe, Terra chips, and Sour Patch Kids. It was not only Harvard students, however, that found room in their big brains to appreciate the amusing moments that made up the half hour episode of Ivory Tower. Nick A. Athanassiou, a graduate student at Boston College, follows Harvard-Radcliffe Television’s hallmark program religiously...

Author: By Merav D. Silverman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Something New for Must-See TV | 11/8/2006 | See Source »

...corridor, a steel-tipped baton at the ready. When all the prisoners are lined up, they are led to an outdoor recreation area enclosed by 25-ft. walls. If they look straight up through the chain mesh that encloses the top of the yard, they can see a patch of the blue Colorado...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside Bomber Row | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

...After an hour's searching, Richards and his companion, a local hunter, found the source: a "warty brown blob" squatting on moss in a patch of nettles. When he reached over and gently took hold of the blob, it twisted viciously in a very unfroglike manner and bit him on the hand. "I was shocked," he says. "Frogs don't normally bite you. There's only one other frog in P.N.G. that does that." The animal's bite, coupled with its unique cry and strange appearance, told Richards he had snared a place in the zoological textbooks with the discovery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Croak Addiction | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

...more often than usual. I don’t imagine that it’s my appearance that leads so many Bostonians to suspect this employment. But as someone in favor of the MBTA’s recently announced fare hikes, I might as well be wearing a T patch on the side of my button-down blue shirt...

Author: By Paul R. Katz | Title: Running a Tighter T | 10/26/2006 | See Source »

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