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...point in the evening, three Lowell House residents ran into the party with their shirts off and "M-A-R-C-I-A" painted on their chests and backs, said Hilary K. Snow...
...media will be transformed as Minnesota buys up networks and cable companies. News will be less about politics and more about civilization--history, art, literature and sweet corn. And creamed onions. The movie business, as Minnesota buys major studios, will start to make pictures in which snow occurs as a normal part of life. Movies in which there is less machine gunning and car bombing and more scenes in which people enjoy a good meal and tell jokes...
With the discovery of fission," C.P. Snow once wrote, "physicists became, almost overnight, the most important military resource a nation-state could call upon." The unleashing of the awesome destructive power of the atom turned physicists into politicians and politicians into physicists. Scientists were forced to reckon with the repercussions of what they had wrought, while political and military leaders had to comprehend the power they held at their fingertips. In Richard Rhodes' epic and fascinating Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (Simon & Schuster; 731 pages; $32.50), a sequel to his Pulitzer prizewinning The Making of the Atomic...
...understand that even if the school did everything right in terms of both remodeling and programs to make the school fully accessible, there would still be the inevitable three feet of snow in the winter to turn the campus into an obstacle course again. However, I believe that since so many students and administrators do not face a situation in which getting to class is a struggle, these changes are slow in coming...
...families with full-time workers. A single illness or injury will plunge a family into crisis. Often health-care concerns override all others in determining whether someone stays on welfare or goes to work. Being poor means making choices: the phone bill or the gas bill? Cough medicine or snow boots? In hard times, health insurance is a luxury; you can't eat peace of mind. So when Briana Harris, 17, fractured her leg sliding into home in a softball game last month, her parents' pain was as real as hers. "We're going to be faced with incredible hospital...