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Together they created a "reference earth model"--a model of the earth that seismologists can use to measure seismic waves and other geophysical phenomena...

Author: By Sarah C. Haskins, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Prof. Nets Crafoord Prize | 4/28/1998 | See Source »

...narrative of either blame or exoneration. Rather, Walker explores the inter-connection between white cruelty and black mimicry of whites, between white fetishistic desire of the black female and black female self-annihilation. The ingenuity of Walker's work is that, not only does she represent these cultural phenomena, but she examines how they form a support network, mutually feeding off each other...

Author: By Velma M. Mcewen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Collective Unconscious `Reconfigured' in Black and White: Kara Walker | 3/20/1998 | See Source »

...dedicated much time into trying to teach his students rather than just lecturing alone," said Danh C. Dang '98, who took Physics 15c: "Wave Phenomena" with Georgi...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Physicist Georgi, Wife Named New Leverett House Masters | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

...angsting over these issues is such a common phenomena, then why are Harvard undergrads seemingly unconcerned with present change, and instead obsess over their future goals? This is perhaps the first time in our lives where time accelerates palpably; for some reason, undergraduate life at Harvard makes it feel like a suture being rapidly yanked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Trajectory in Pictures | 3/13/1998 | See Source »

...reflection, I don't suppose these disparate phenomena are so strange at all. I think of the ways women are expected and acculturated to be in everyday life: polite, non-aggressive if not overtly submissive, attractive. Standing in line at Christie's today, I stared at the cover of some magazine where Sarah Michelle Gellar (the vampire-butt-kicker of Buffy fame) was posed, her head tilted down and body caving inward like some little girl who just had her lollipop taken away. Popular culture seems intent on muting and negating the power of any woman who dares...

Author: By Abigail R. Branch, | Title: Defending Ourselves | 3/11/1998 | See Source »

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