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...Pressing the flesh in neighboring Woollahra, a sartorially splendid Turnbull can't quite match Hawke at this caper - but boy, tough crowd! Some of the people sipping coffee in the sunshine look miffed to have been approached. "It's a thin line," says Turnbull, "between engaging people and bothering them. I err on the side of respecting privacy." Time up, he bounds across Queen Street to wave down a bus bound for the city. "He's always catching the bus," says a staffer...
...Initiative in Innovative Computing (IIC), Frankel recently received the Lennart Nilsson award—and the $15,000 that comes with it—for her compelling scientific photography. The Crimson caught up with Frankel to hear about her experience as a cutting-edge photographer walking a thin line between science and art. The larger issue dealt with here is trying to get researchers and students to understand the importance of visually experiencing science and engineering. This might seem obvious, but for some reason there is not enough of it on campus. I feel deeply that the world...
...suppliers and different designs, the Pentagon is buying 16 different kinds of MRAPs, each with its own requirements for maintenance, training and spare parts. The MRAPs, up to five times as heavy as the Humvees they are replacing, gulp a lot more fuel - fuel that gets to them inside thin-skinned tanker trucks that must travel Iraq's IED-laden roads...
...that field. The thin air in mile-high Denver turns ordinary baseballs into missiles, adding 40 ft. (about 12 m) to a 400-ft. hit. But it did little for the Rockies, who tried to compensate by loading up on sluggers and pitchers. One colossal mistake: signing two gimpy pitchers in 2000 for $172 million. Come 2002, the Monforts were in trouble. Rumors of bankruptcy or a fire sale abounded amid a multimillion-dollar cash call from the other partners...
...solution to the thin-air problem, it turned out, was to put the baseballs in a humidor, where a little added moisture would keep them earthbound. And the solution to the performance problem was to get better baseball players, but on the cheap. Thus, the new Monfort doctrine: No more free agents; more investment in the farm system. Yet the franchise continued to sink, and fans grew more vocal. The Monforts' defensive reply: Tough...