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...Tong was no ordinary daughter and her path to New York had been painful?for herself and her parents. As a young Chinese activist, she'd been blacklisted for her role in the 1989 student democracy movement in Tiananmen Square. The government had branded her a dangerous troublemaker for working as personal assistant to high-profile dissident, Wei Jingsheng. And she had endured a brutal 30-month term in a re-education through labor camp, then social and professional ostracism upon her release. In 1997 she made the wrenching decision to leave China to seek political asylum...
...Rainier is still active, and last week's quake might have loosened deep rocks that hold molten magma and hot gases in check. This could send up the volatile mix and cause an eruption. Several towns are built on top of Rainier's ancient flows--and lie in the path of new ones that would follow. Luckily, though, the slowly rising magma would likely trigger steam explosions, giving scientists ample warning. A quake can also trigger huge landslides, sending enormous slabs of boulders and clay downhill as fast as a speeding train. Fortunately, the region has had a relatively...
Kong dies, so it's sad, but the world he brought with him was still better than the one I was in: made-up, perfect, grand, a matte painting of a path up a vine-covered cliff, dramatically lit by a shaft of sunlight through a break in the clouds. I could interpose it between myself and the depressed new-suburban vista that surrounded...
Following in Ralph Nader's footsteps may be a dubious path to take these days, but that doesn't seem to bother Nick Beilenson '58. He is at the helm of the newly founded alumni association of the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), which is modeled after a program Nader helped start with Princeton alumni called Project...
...behind solar sailing is simple. Although light is made of massless particles called photons, such ephemeral things exert real pressure, especially when they flow from so close a source as the sun. Attach a sail of lightweight Mylar or other material to a spacecraft, set it up in the path of that outrushing energy, and you ought to be able to move in almost any direction...