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Barack Obama grew up long after the 1950s air-raid drills that sent students scurrying under their desks, but the mushroom cloud was never far from his imagination. He wrote his senior thesis on nuclear arms reduction and quoted reggae star Peter Tosh in an essay about the "flowering of the nuclear Freeze movement" for a student magazine. Now that onetime activist possesses the power to summon the world. At the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, he gathered representatives of 47 nations (including 38 heads of state) for the largest diplomatic event convened by a U.S. President since 1945. Obama...
Dryness can be a problem, admits Peter Wilander, Delta's head of onboard services, who says the airline abandoned an almond-butter and jelly sandwich in part because it couldn't get the consistency of the bread right. Airlines have to factor in other issues, including messiness (Virgin rejected a chocolate bar that shed flakes that stuck to the seats) and smell (Delta recently experimented with tuna fish and found it can work if it's cut with lemon). (See the best travel gadgets...
With Tiger Mike Grossman’s goal in the second quarter at 11:32, the game was tied, 2-2. But that’s as close as Princeton would come. Three straight goals by Crimson senior midfielder Jason Duboe, sophomore midfielder Andrew Pataki, and freshman attack Peter Schwartz allowed Harvard to pull away at the close of the first half...
Before Harvard crossed home plate again, UMass took the lead with a three-run inning of its own in the bottom of the sixth, with RBI from Mike Donato and Peter Copa to put the Minutemen...
...Peter Chen ’13, who serves on both the Committee on General Education and the Gen Ed Planning Committee, says that he feels the extent of most students’ understanding of the Gen Ed program is simply that it gives broader category names to what were narrower Core categories...