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...other side of his laboratory wall, a deflection appeared on the radar screen. One thing led to another, and now Greneker is trying to smooth out the final kinks in his Radar Flashlight, a device that looks like an oversize hair dryer but can penetrate 8-in.-thick nonmetal doors and walls. When radar waves encounter moving objects, like a hostage taker's nervous pacing or heaving diaphragm, the motions are translated into a bar of LED lights in which the height of the bar corresponds with the amount of movement in the room. In more sophisticated radar detectors, like...
Stalking these massive creatures were predators of equally awesome aspect: muscular jaguars, saber-toothed cats and thick-bodied dire wolves with bone-crunching teeth. Most horrible of all were the short-faced bears, huge animals that weighed twice as much as modern grizzlies and could chase down and kill anything except perhaps a full-grown mastodon. But about 13,000 years ago, not long after the first humans arrived in the New World, all but a few of these remarkable creatures--collectively known as megafauna--had vanished...
...Delta Air Lines, my wife and I were rested and looking forward to celebrating New Year's at this world-renowned palazzo located on the Grand Canal in Venice. In minutes, we were comfortably ensconced in our spectacular room overlooking the canal, replete with Frette linens, Ginori porcelain, thick cotton robes and towels in the pink-marbled bathroom and an immense, multicolored Murano glass chandelier in the bedroom. There was also a chilled bottle of Ferrari sparkling wine (one of Italy's finest), a huge vase of flowers and a silver bowl of fresh fruit--all compliments of the hotel...
Getting a thick envelope from Harvard’s Admission Office got more difficult this year as Harvard accepted only 10.7 percent of applications to the Class...
...Narayan was short in stature, and yet I remember one time we were in the cafeteria. He was in line in front of me carrying one of those thick plastic trays. He got three glasses of water. And then I noticed that he was holding all that weight just between his thumb and forefinger,” says Whitney Beales ’68, a fellow member...