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...much exposure for one Eagle whose behind was caught by a television camera. "Great, I got my ass on television," he moaned... Two funny mistakes were made by the Boston Garden scoreboard operator during Monday's game. First, they made sophomore Tom Holmes into a metric unit, calling him Ton Holmes. Second, when freshman Stuart Swenson was sent to the penalty box after being pummeled by a BC thug, the scoreboard read "Harvard penalty: #12 Steve Flomenhoft." Flomenhoft graduated last year...Valentine's Day at the Beanpot has not been too much fun for the Crimson: Harvard...
...million for the plant. Soon after, 290 engineers and laborers arrived from China to begin packing up their new possession. After being cut or unbolted, each piece -- some are bigger than a boxcar -- is numbered and labeled in Chinese characters to ensure that the 60,000-ton jigsaw puzzle can be reassembled correctly back home in China. The furnaces now hang oddly in the open air, but within weeks they will be lifted from their cradles and made ready for transport to the port at Long Beach...
Confining a gas made of electrically charged atomic nuclei -- a plasma -- has proved to be far more complex than anyone had suspected, and so has heating it. While the first rudimentary fusion reactors were a few feet across and weighed a ton or two, the Tokamak weighs hundreds of tons and fills a gymnasium-size room. A commercial reactor would be much bigger still and with current technology would cost hundreds of billions of dollars...
Through Feb. 20. "Turner-Ruskin-Nor ton-Winthrop." Grenville Winthrop's collection of over 600 will be highlighted by an exhibition of prints by and after the great British Romantic landscapist Joseph Turner (1775-1851). Turner's interest was spurred by his education at Harvard under Charles Eliot Norton, who was in turn deeply influenced by John Ruskin, the British critic...
Sonfields': Turkey of course. A seventeen pounder, roasted to a perfect tenderness with a ton of dark meat; the chef's assistant was amazed at how easily he carved the bird. And more than enough for left-overs. Too bad turkey is so dull. But it made a good curry and a good Monte Cristo sandwich the next...