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...Eventually, it would convey detailed news of inventions, allowing people in distant lands who would never meet to collaborate, in effect, on new technologies. "James Watt's steam engine" was actually lots of people's steam engine, including the Frenchman who had first shown that steam could move a piston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Web We Weave | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...halfback Vic Gatto, the captain, who guided a steady offense that supported a deep, veteran defense that only gave up 41 points going into The Game. The Bulldogs countered with a powerful offensive squad, with running back Calvin Hill, a future NFL star and father of Detroit Piston Grant Hill, and Brian Dowling, a quarterback who had not lost a game as a starter since junior high school and would later gain most fame as the inspiration for the character of B.D. in Gary Trudeau's "Doonesbury" comic. A powerful Yale team had defeated an emerging Harvard unit narrowly...

Author: By Aaron R. Cohen, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Harvard-Yale Football: Who Cares | 11/18/1999 | See Source »

...last piece on tonight's program is Walter Piston's Third Symphony, a warm, polished, slightly reticent work. The HRO's brass section, sometimes dicey, was wonderful here in rehearsal and Yannatos' tough love made its staccato playing even better. The slow turns of the oboe at the outset have an Italianate flavor (Walter's grandfather was named Antonio Pistone) and the tonal language is cosmopolitan: Piston, luckier than most Harvard seniors, won a Paine Traveling Fellowship after graduation. You'll want to listen in the third movement for exuberant music that Dr. Y wants to deliver in "band style...

Author: By Matt A. Carter, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HRO Suits Up for Junior Parents | 3/5/1999 | See Source »

...fans are taking. Although many have been preparing all season, there are plenty of X-Files-style conspiracists who refuse to let go. "I don't care what they say," says Jordan fan Michael Sims, 27, of Detroit. "I don't think the NBA will allow it." Even in Piston country, Jordan reigns. Which is a political miracle if you remember that Jordan disrupted Detroit's dynasty, with a little help from Jackson, who taught him the importance of limiting himself for the good of the Bulls. Alan Jones, 30, also of Detroit, rants against Chicago but deifies Jordan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Basketball: The One And Only | 6/22/1998 | See Source »

...properly identified the people who can do this job." Other Air Force officers point out that the plane has flown without an accident at an Air Force base at Hondo, Texas, where the instructors, who are civilians working under contract with the Air Force, have spent years flying small, piston-powered aircraft like the T-3. "If the engine quits, we know how to land the airplane and walk away from it," a civilian pilot at Hondo says. "The Air Force guys just know how to bail out when that happens." McPeak, a former F-15 pilot, suggests the fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Deadly Trainer | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

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