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Victoria D. Sung ’10 selects a navy swatch of fabric amidst the rows of fake chinchilla at Boston’s Winmill Fabrics. Sung’s choice in material reflects her personality as both a designer and a stylish individual. “It’s collegiate preppy with a hint of downtown New York,” Sung says. Think Ralph Lauren with a twist. Sung, who is also a Crimson Arts Columnist, strolls through the fabric store’s aisles and aisles of multi-colored buttons and faux-fur. Despite...
...Scott Heyworth turned up in the nearby town of Wasilla for a meeting with its mayor, Sarah Palin. Heyworth, a local Democratic activist, had grown tired of waiting for the Big Three oil companies to tap their huge natural-gas reserves in the state's North Slope, the long swatch of northern Alaska tundra that includes the largest oil and gas fields in North America. For decades, ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips and British Petroleum had little incentive to sell the trillions of cubic feet of natural gas that shares space beneath the ice with all those oil deposits. Gas is less profitable...
Harvard track and field crossed the river Friday and Saturday to take on the large swatch of competition that turned out for Boston University’s annual St. Valentine’s Invitational. The women’s squad posted nine top-25 performances in their meet on Friday, while the men’s squad offered up 11 top-30 showings on Saturday. “We didn’t really go in with any team goals because there were no team rankings,” said senior women’s co-captain Sally Stanton...
That prospect is inspiring enough to have attracted $67 million - about two-thirds of the project's overall budget - from a trio of high-profile sponsors: Swiss watchmaker Omega, part of the Swatch Group, which brings expertise in both miniaturization and efficient energy use; Deutsche Bank, which is keen to green its investment portfolio; and Belgian chemical and materials group Solvay, which backed the exploits of Piccard's grand-father, Auguste, when he co-piloted a balloon beyond the stratospheric altitude...
...BOOKS No fewer than 15 Diana books will hit the market this year, including a $2,000 coffee-table book about her wedding dress that contains a swatch of the leftover silk...