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Harvard has a thousand-year, $1-per-year lease on some parts of the land that the City of Boston owns...
...musings about Mars. The craft flew past the planet at a distance of only 9,800 kilometers, transmitting 22 television pictures of a bleak, moonlike landscape pockmarked by craters and showing no signs of life. Even so, hope persisted. To demonstrate that a Mariner flyby at a distance of thousands of miles might completely overlook a thriving civilization, a young and still unknown Carl Sagan that same year sifted through a thousand pictures of Earth shot by a weather satellite orbiting only 480 kilometers up. In a paper entitled Is There Life on Earth? he reported that only one photograph...
...lame inflight entertainment? The AV340 video and music player from French firm Archos might just be the answer to mile-high boredom. Its 40-GB hard disk can easily store 30 feature films to watch on its 9.7-cm color screen, and still leave room for a few thousand MP3 tracks. All this in a package that weighs just 0.35 kg. The Archos ($1,000) can record straight from TV or hi-fi, so you don't have to waste time compressing audio and video files on your computer. And when you land, you can hook it up to your...
Farmer is an impossibly busy man: an influential medical fundraiser, a sharp critic of U.S. policy towards the developing world and a practicing physician with his feet in what seems like a thousand clinics at once. He splits his time between regular rounds at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the free medical complex he founded in Cange, a rural settlement in the most impoverished part of Haiti...
...away from the prying eyes of his new college classmates inside the Athlon Sports College Football Preview. Soon enough, however, Mazza’s new Varsity Football teammates would come to find out what Mazza had planned for no one at Harvard to know. Mazza, a wide receiver from Thousand Oaks, Calif., who lives in Canaday and may concentrate in Economics, is also a male model. As his teammates found out when they flipped open the football magazine and found Mazza’s hidden portfolio pictures, his rugged good looks are featured in advertising campaigns for Champion Sporting Goods...