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...projects ever undertaken in the country. Though facts and figures may be fascinating to the future engineers and city planners among us, not everyone wants to know the force exerted by each 24-ton steel beam in the hole at South Station. The really interesting facts surface at the site; they come from people wearing hard hats who spend hours at a time 140 feet underground. And for the guy (or girl) who still hasn't given up a childhood passion for cranes and big drills, on-site glimpses of the massive holes in Boston can't be matched...
...everyday danger of the dig sites becomes apparent when talking to construction workers. As one worker answered a question about the religious tags hanging from his hardhat, "I just figure you need every added blessing you can get. We're dealing with life and death every second down there." When asked whether anything dangerous occurs at his site, another construction worker refuses to comment, admitting, "I can't talk about it. That's for the PR guys at the office to talk about. Look for yourself then you can decide whether it's dangerous or not." Glancing down...
Even Harvard students got into the voting spirit. At the Quincy House polls, 91 out of a registered 749 voted. "That's a record high in the last couple of years that I've been here," says J. Simpson, one of the pollsters working the site. "We've had it as low as 22, although it's usually between...
...good place to start looking, Saunders says, is the OCS Web page (see sidebar). In addition to general information on both summer job and full-time recruiting, the Web site offers a schedule of meetings, resume drop-off dates and interview schedules...
Tertiary associations are important, but they add little to a community's sense of spiritual cohesion. The same goes for other electronic means of bringing people together (like the new Harvard College Web site, or Pforzheimer House's chat room): they facilitate communication with our peers but with the initial stipulation that we be sitting alone at our desk, staring at a computer screen. Out of such a sense of isolation a spirited sense of community cannot be forged...