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...sentiment on the strength of his enthusiasm. He describes Harold Graham's 112-foot practice flight with a 140-pound Rocket Belt in 1961 as a "pilot kicking gravity's ass like it had never been kicked before." Defying God's wishes, it turns out, isn't an easy task. The world's best jetpack pilot, Bill Suitor, likened flying the contraption to "standing on a beach ball bobbing in the middle of a swimming pool." But Suitor mastered the technique, and during the opening ceremonies of the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, he cemented his place atop jetpack history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Strange History of Jetpacks | 10/26/2008 | See Source »

...first task was to make sure that we carefully understood how the technology would be made available to different industries and how it delivers benefit in different applications,” said Stephen D. Saylor, the chief executive of SiOnyx, the start-up venture created to commercialize the innovation. “That was what the company was doing for the last year and a half...

Author: By Alissa M D'gama, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: By Accident, Harvard Scientists Create Black Silicon | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

...panel also included Mitchell C. Hunter ’09, who spoke about the “fantastic” collaboration between students and administrators during his time on the Greenhouse Gas Task Force...

Author: By Natasha S. Whitney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Harvard Office Encourages Sustainability | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

...We’re not there policing the posters,” he said. “Guarding them would be an impossible task...

Author: By Charles J. Wells, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Dean Stresses Free Speech After Vandalism of Right to Life Posters | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

University President Drew G. Faust established the office this summer to implement the recommendations of the Greenhouse Gas Task Force Report...

Author: By Natasha S. Whitney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Harvard Office Encourages Sustainability | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

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