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Although Harvard students have never matched MIT’s outrageous “hacks,” they still went to great lengths to amuse themselves. Stories are still told of the suitemates in Lowell who held a pool party in their room, trucking sand into the dorm and blowing up an inflatable pool. The party ended with a splash when too many students jumped into the pool and the floor fell through. When the Cabot dining hall flooded in the 1980s, students dove in and practiced the breast stroke...
...It’s too long that science has held its collective head in the sand over this important issue,” he said...
...stealth mission, witnessed by only a few friends, Japanese officials and U.S. Ambassador to Japan Howard Baker, along with the island's residents and a CNN crew, which recorded the event for broadcast later this fall. Bush flew by private jet to Iwo Jima, first walking the black sand beach where Marines landed in 1945 and helping raise a flag on Mount Suribachi, where Marines raised the U.S. flag in the famous war picture. "I choked back a tear," he said. Then Bush boarded a Japanese helicopter and retraced the route of his mission. "The waves and wind looked hauntingly...
...though their knowledge of the undulating dunes clearly stands them in good stead for a desert posting. They may be a tourist attraction in their own right these days but, despite the softly-softly image, the Desert Police are still very much upholders of Jordan's law of the sand...
...TAKE A DIVE After all that sand in Wadi Rum, there's nothing better than a dip in the emerald waters of the Red Sea. And, for scuba or snorkeling fans, the Royal Diving Club in the resort area of Aqaba is the perfect place to combine a quick swim with a chance to spot lionfish, snappers and barracuda in the wreck of the container ship Cedar Bride, which lies 20 meters deep in the warm waters off Rainbow Reef. Read more details at www.jptd.com.jo...