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It’s Saturday. Anxious preteens and closet fanatics alike crowd the rear of the Harvard Square Sprint Store, eagerly anticipating the arrival of MTV Real World cast members Ace, from the Paris season, and Cameran and Randy, of the currently running San Diego season. Representatives from JAMN 94.5 provide a festive hip hop background and an equally festive aesthetic background with their matching red t-shirts and gelled hair. The stage...
...months. With The Feelies, I take a trip back into the garage of classic pop culture and say another thank you to the refuse or relics left there among the cobwebs of memory. Perhaps I should also thank the cobwebs; for if they obstruct the clarity of the rear-view mirror, they also ornament it - they dress my favorite old songs, movies, books, magazines in a musty lace filigree. Or, wait, do all those cobwebs mean that my cultural past is a Saddam-like spider hole, where I hide from current (to me debased) pop culture, and from the encroaching...
...propulsion engines--in which a portable nuclear reactor heats charged gas and then fires it out the rear of the spacecraft--already exist and are capable of accelerating ships to very high speeds. But the stream of ions the engines produce is a thin one, and even a small ship requires a long time to accelerate--a problem when time is the very thing you're trying to limit. Another possibility is nuclear thermal propulsion, which uses a larger reactor to superheat traditional propellant and blast it out the engine nozzle. Things move a lot faster with such a system...
...specifically told not to run into the crater that would form from the explosion; instead, they were to go around the hole. Before the battle, they sang songs celebrating their being given the chance to fight. But at the last minute, Union generals ordered the black soldiers to the rear and the white troops to lead the charge. The untrained men ran straight into the hole and became easy targets for the Confederate army. Many black soldiers got stuck behind them and were also slaughtered...
SIZE MATTERS Some of the new sets are bigger and thinner than before. A prototype Samsung plasma screen measures a record 80 in. diagonally. And for something really skinny, RCA has developed a rear-projection TV that's less than 7 in. thick...