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Thankfully, the Gen Ed Committee’s so-called Gang of Five, meeting clandestinely over the summer, has brought a sense of reason to the process that only a junta can. But will promised “portal” courses be any less vapid than the pipe dream of “Harvard College Courses” promised to be? Will they be mandatory and well-taught, or merely a re-christening of things we already have, with the added dignity of being recognized, rather meaninglessly, as foundational but only recommended...

Author: By Travis R. Kavulla, | Title: Core Curriculum, I Loathe You | 10/3/2005 | See Source »

...reinvented myself again. Instead of simply editing the magazine, I came out from behind the desk and started living the life. I became the personification of the prototype that I was describing in the magazine. I became, in effect, Mr. Playboy. I started smoking a pipe. I bought a Mercedes-Benz 300SL--the coolest car. I hosted a syndicated TV show called Playboy's Penthouse, bought the first Playboy mansion and opened the first Playboy Club. In the space of a year, I became world famous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mr. Playboy: Hugh Hefner tells how he created an identity in order to fulfill his dreams | 10/2/2005 | See Source »

...evening of Saturday, July 9, a chilled water pipe broke in the building’s attic, releasing hundreds of gallons of water down the walls of the building’s atrium, into the offices of the African and African American Studies department, and eventually reaching all the way down to the basement...

Author: By Nina L. Vizcarrondo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Barker Center Recovers After Flood | 9/14/2005 | See Source »

Some obstacles to the construction included a large pipe in the Mather serving area, water damage in the kitchen area, and a piece of granite that broke in the Mather pasta area...

Author: By Jane V. Evans, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Renovated River Dining Halls Open | 9/14/2005 | See Source »

...godsend to a poor village, keeping fish fresh on a journey to market or preserving vaccines. But how do you make it without electricity, without access to coolants like Freon or fuels like propane? Williams, 26, knew that forcing compressed air through a hole in the middle of a pipe causes hot and cold air to flow from opposite ends, a phenomenon known as the Ranque-Hilsch vortex-tube effect. No one is quite sure how the separation works, but feed the cold air into a container, he reasoned, and you would have an icemaker and a freezer, which would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Figuring the Future: How to Make Ice Out of Thin Air: Cool Heat Transfer | 9/4/2005 | See Source »

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