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...painfully formal in speech and demeanor. He concluded that Mugabe had not only taken over the dowdy office décor of Ian Smith, the Prime Minister of white-ruled Rhodesia; he also displayed the same aversion to political opposition and an independent media and judiciary. "Far from being polar opposites, I see Ian Smith and Robert Mugabe as two sides of the same coin," says Meldrum. "History is repeating itself in Zimbabwe." And he became a minor victim of that history; the last remaining foreign journalist, Meldrum was kicked out of Zimbabwe last year. Even as Mugabe grew into...
...competitive sports, where high stakes and high technology are combining to push the limits of human performance--often without leaving chemical evidence that science is helping nature. Scientists and athletes increasingly find themselves in symbiotic research, both driven to achieve the same goal of enhancing physical ability, but with polar-opposite motivations. Scientists want to treat debilitating diseases, while elite athletes look to the labs for a competitive edge...
...climb to 840°F. When that side rotates into darkness, the thermometer plunges to --300°F. Eons of this rotisserie roll have cooked Mercury down to a nub with a metal core that represents three-quarters of its diameter. Yet there may be water ice in permanently shadowed polar craters...
What my dad’s semester here taught me was that unlike Middlebury, say, where the undergraduate experience is arguably more uniform, the college experience at Harvard didn’t mean having a series of fairly common formative experiences and wearing a lot of polar fleece. It meant choosing carefully. So I missed out on lasagna. It’s okay. I have my mother’s recipe. Besides, I don’t think my parents serve Scotch at those parties anyway...
...most memorable pick-up line a girl has ever used on you: Do you know how much a polar bear weighs? I don't know, but it's enough to break...