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...Seventy percent of soda drinkers pick Coke as their favorite drink over Boylan’s Cane Cola, Tab, A.J. Stephan’s Sasparilla, Malta Goya, and Pepsi. (“Undergrads: Still Fiending for Coke,” March...
...water's flow, one to turn it off or down, and one each to make it hotter or colder. Behind the minimalist exterior is a programmable sensor that allows the user to get precisely the temperature desired with a single push - er, caress - of a button. Nouvel can pick his tasks, so why bathrooms? "It turned out I have something to say about taps," says Nouvel, 61. "We have technology now that lets us minimize our gestures; we can move forward into a kind of Darwinism of objects." Well, some of us can. Nouvel's designs, which include a shower...
...Harvard College Marathon Challenge, which is entering its second year. The group recruits College students—including non-athletes—to run the Boston Marathon in April and raises money for charity. “Having conquered the marathon, you have the feeling that you can pick up and go full speed at anything,” said Matthew R. Conroy ’07, who is in charge of training for the group. But as Wood’s study demonstrates, it’s not a challenge to be taken lightly. “We want...
...first couple minutes of the Adams House Drama Society’s production of George Bernard Shaw’s “Heartbreak House,” genteel Brits lounged lazily over furniture, occasionally yawning to languid background parlor music. I hoped that the action would pick up in the next three hours...
Unfortunately, the already slow pace of the play faltered towards the end of the second act and did not pick up again until the second half of Act III. This period possessed the languor of the first act without achieving the same captivating performances. The actors literally just sat still and exchanged banter—which is what they did throughout most of the play, but by Act II, this direction had grown tedious...