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Almost a hundred rooms in Dunster will also receive new space-saving furniture this summer, including raised beds, dressers that fit underneath the beds, and narrower desks that may have built-in bookcase space on top. If the furniture pilot program is deemed a success, administrators say other Houses may be refurnished as well...
...claim against someone who owes them money.” Basile said that El Concilio is providing SCAS with an office in their Central Square building free of charge. Student SCAS volunteers will be there for two hours each week starting in June as part of a summer pilot program. “You can’t meet with clients at PBH, so [SCAS volunteers] met with clients...at another office” in Boston, Basile said. “[This] is difficult because that office is already used for other clients and it is not integrated into...
...mountain--would now be able to meet them and evacuate the wounded. Before long, the climbers heard the whap-whapping of blades and saw a dark green chopper struggling up to them. When it landed, the able-bodied loaded first Makalu Gao, then Weathers aboard, and the pilot flew off, dropping gratefully down to lower altitudes where there was thicker air for his blades to bite. With the helicopter gone, the most grievously injured climbers were at last on their way to safety. Back on Everest, the ambulatory ones were left to make their own way down--and the fallen...
...YOUNGEST licensed pilot in the U.S. A few years later, brash aviator Robert Buck was a national hero. Dubbed the Schoolboy Pilot--he drank milk in flight and called his parents after every landing--Buck flew a 28-hour 1930 trip from Newark, N.J., to Los Angeles, setting the junior transcontinental speed record, and made a record round trip to Havana in 13 hours. A chief pilot for TWA, where he worked from 1937 to 1974, Buck wrote such acclaimed books as North Star Over My Shoulder, a must- read for new pilots...
Denizens of Lamont Library have reason to rejoice, as the library will shift permanently to a 24-hour schedule during the academic workweek after a two-year pilot program that will end this month. “It’s amazing to us how well it was received,” said Associate Librarian for Collection Management Marilyn Wood. “It was very evident to us that it was something the students were using and saw great value in.” Lamont’s current ‘24/5’ schedule is part...