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...walls are really thin, so you can hear everything that goes on," says G. William Winborn '95, house committee vice-president...
When you skate on thin ice for too long, it will eventually cave in on you. After surviving two ominously close calls last week at Cornell and Colgate, the luck of the Crimson (18-3-2, 15-2-2 ECAC) finally ran out last night, as Dartmouth (10-13-0, 8-11-0 ECAC) shocked the third-ranked Crimson here in Thompson Arena...
Morresy said he could not rule out the possibility that Gao had fallen through thin ice, but he did say the ice was able to support two firefighters and their equipment on the morning they attempted to rescue Gao. "It was perfectly stable," he said...
Expectations have grown thin in a village that has suffered the starvation of hope. Both the federal and provincial governments are sending fact-finding missions to the settlement, now that the most recent tragedy has put a national spotlight on Davis Inlet. But official concern cannot easily lift the air of sadness and fatalism in the bedraggled village. Because of a budget crunch, Constable Tsnakapesh was laid off for a week along with the village's other cop. Tsnakapesh, 24, continued to take police calls, though. "I have no authority," he says, "but I've been where these kids...
...WASN'T NEARLY ENOUGH TO MAKE CROPS GROW or give anyone a Saint-Tropez tan, but for the first time ever, there was sunlight in the middle of the night. This seemingly divine miracle was actually the product of a thin, 65-ft. plastic mirror mounted on the unmanned Russian spacecraft Progress, which, from its 225-mile-high perch, reflected light on a sleeping Europe. The umbrella-like mirror, called Banner, did not quite turn night into day, but it did project a weak 2 1/2-mile-wide beam that danced across the Continent for six minutes. A French observer described...