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Globe uses d3o in skateboard shoes. Spyder is making a slalom suit with d3o for the U.S. and Canadian Olympic teams. Swiss company Ribcap is putting d3o into soft ski caps. d3o management is also discussing military opportunities. And as d3o becomes cheaper to produce, it could be used in cars, soundproofing and police and paramedic gear. Then there are football, baseball, rugby, polo, cricket. The prospects for d3o and its "intelligent molecules" suddenly look endless...
...blockmates will not be purchasing anything for their Halloween costumes this year. Inspired by the recent release of the film “March of the Penguins,” the group will be dressing up as penguins, wearing black pants, shirts, and ski masks.They plan to fashion beaks and webbed feet from orange construction paper and will use pillows and white poster board for their penguin stomachs. For one Oona’s shopper, Ben D. Wei ’08, Halloween is merely a means to an end. Wei says he wants to look “classy?...
...official start date for alpine skiing practices at colleges around the country approached, the Harvard team was as excited to begin as any other. But with one catch—the Crimson didn’t, and still doesn’t, have a coach. Since the Aug. 30 departure of former head coach Justin Rouleau for Massachusetts, his alma mater, Harvard’s alpine skiers have been without direction. So just how have the skiers managed in the absence of a particular leader? “If anything, we’ve had a problem with over-attendance...
...compete with the possibility of combining digital lecture videos with wireless networking and watching Chem lectures without ever getting out of bed. The real question, though, is why should we even restrict ourselves to beds here at Harvard? Why not watch lectures poolside in southern California, or from ski lodges in Colorado or cruise ships sailing across the Caribbean?The past year has turned these admittedly far-fetched possibilities into a more and more reasonable alternative. For one, more classes (and more popular classes, most notably Justice), are being taped in higher and higher quality. While the Justice videos won?...
Nothing much usually happens in Nalchik, capital of the obscure Caucasian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria. Mostly, tourists come to ski or climb in mountains that include Europe's highest, Elbrus. They buy honey and fruit from roadside markets or enjoy an easygoing approach to nightlife that particularly appeals to travelers from more conservative regions. The sleepy little republic, which is home to a mix of ethnic Russians and Muslims, was also largely free of the insurgency that has set much of the North Caucasus - Chechnya, Dagestan, Ingushetia - aflame. Even when the security services cracked down on alleged radical Islamists, closing...