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...what courses I wanted to take, oriented myself around Harvard Square, and looked through the Unofficial Guide to Life at Harvard to find out what student groups looked interesting, which is actually how I first discovered the business board of The Crimson. In retrospect, I think I was shell-shocked. By not participating in orientation week, I was trying not to admit that I was at the bottom of the food chain again and in unfamiliar territory. I wanted to be in California with my friends and family and was truly dreading what everyone proclaimed was going...
...businesses money, and free-spending Japanese consumers to buy their exports. Japan, in its current state, has neither. The once-emulated economic juggernaut has been reduced to the humiliating status of an export-dumping nation, irking the U.S. profoundly in the process and affording no help whatsoever to its shell-shocked Asian neighbors...
...College is forced to shell out still more money to accommodate the gargantuan quantities of garbage produced by students moving out of their dorms...
...College is forced to shell out still more money to accommodate the gargantuan quantities of garbage produced by students moving out of their dorms...
...diplomatic trembling, but let's take the day in 1955 when Shanghai-born Qian Xuesen goes home. He had fled the Japanese occupation of China and landed at M.I.T., then earned a Ph.D. at Caltech, where he joined a rocket-research group to pioneer supersonic aerodynamics and thin-shell-stability theory for ballistic missiles. At the university's prestigious Jet Propulsion Lab, he helped design Private A, the first U.S. solid-fuel missile that worked. Then he was invited into the U.S. Army as a colonel to fashion the Titan ICBM, workhorse of the cold war silo-missile force...