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Before my senior year in high school, my family didn’t have a computer—when I needed to type papers I would trudge over to my godmother’s apartment, even in the snow. When I came to Harvard, I had never used e-mail before. It’s ironic, then, that as graduation approaches, e-mail—for all its advantages and faults—has ultimately played a central role in my Harvard life...
...from the rest of Russia, the people of Sakhalin have long made due with a pragmatic ingenuity. At the often snowbound Sakhalin airport a truck equipped with a surplus military jet engine aimed toward the ground clears ice from the runway, the heat and flames quickly vaporizing the fallen snow. The city bus system is made up of discarded Japanese vehicles shipped annually to Russia. Shot glasses for vodka in bars by night double as measuring cups for sunflower seeds in markets...
...most stunning architecture?Angkor Wat and its surrounding Khmer temples?while the battlefields where 65,000 people have died in two decades in northern Sri Lanka are lush jungles of palms and ponds alive with kingfishers, green parrots and black and yellow longtails. Kashmir in May?as the snow pulls back through the damp pine forests and ponies wander through flower-filled grasslands?is perhaps the most beautiful war zone of all. "Sometimes you wish it was just a little less pretty," sighs Omar Farooq, Kashmir's young spiritual leader and leading moderate separatist. "Maybe then not so many people...
...fires at the heart of the rubble burned for weeks, holding recovery efforts to a wide perimeter, and sending foul-smelling smoke wafting through the New York atmosphere. As the brilliant fall weather cooled into winter drizzle and snow, New Yorkers, at once repelled and consumed by the thought and images of the wound to our city, were the first to visit the site. Soon, tourists arrived in droves, snapping photographs, taking in the atmosphere. Tickets for the viewing stand were handed out in order to control the crowds...
...million worldwide. More than a sleeper blockbuster, it was a blazingly original collage of martial arts, Oscar-winning special effects and high-toned philosophy borrowed from sources as diverse as Plato, the Bible and Snow White. Since Larry and Andy Wachowski, the fraternal directing duo, had always envisioned The Matrix as part one of a trilogy, Warner Bros. quickly put not one but two more Matrix films into production. "The first movie was like The Hobbit for The Lord of the Rings," says producer Joel Silver. "It's the setup to the big story...