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...stamp. Memorial stamps for Presidents can be issued on their first birthday after they die, but everyone else has to wait at least 10 years. Given this rule, stamp designers had little to work with after Americans last year voted the sitcom one of 15 cultural phenomena that best represent the 1990s...
...cultural phenomena we might have borrowed from Europe--legal red-light districts, the siesta, pretty money--we get this. Sixteen men and women maroon themselves for as long as 39 days on an isolated tropical island, building driftwood huts and lunching on rats. Meanwhile, 10 folks agree to spend as long as three months sequestered, sleeping in communal bedrooms and living without TV or newspapers in a house that lacks only pencil shavings on the floor to qualify as a human hamster cage--all for cash prizes, under constant camera surveillance for a prime-time audience...
...most of the shows on campus-and they are the same set of people who help produce (or are close friends with those who help produce) most of the other shows on campus. In a small theater like the Ex (which practically comes with a built-in audience) this phenomena is only evident in the repetition of faces at most performances. In larger spaces like the Agassiz and especially the Loeb Mainstage, however, less than ideal ticket sales for excellent shows indicate more clearly the limited extent of the theater-going audience at Harvard...
...just three or four decades, we had managed to reverse one of nature's most remarkable geomorphological phenomena. By the 1980s coastal Louisiana, instead of expanding in size, was disappearing under the Gulf at a rate of nearly 40 sq. mi. (100 sq km) a year. (The rate of land loss has declined somewhat since then; no one seems sure...
...turbulence of ocean currents to the folding of protein molecules, that cannot be understood without radical improvements in our methods of calculation. They will provide plenty of interesting continued employment for theorists and experimenters for the foreseeable future. But no new freestanding scientific principles are needed to understand these phenomena. The standard model provides all the fundamental principles we need...