Word: tower
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They were originally intended for a similar bell tower in Eliot...
...past, house residents took turns ringing the 15 bells at the top of the Lowell tower...
...mail, reviews the status of products and, as corporate vice president of technology, helps plan Netscape's next moves (he doesn't write code anymore). "Marc hasn't changed," says Horn. "He still buys 20 or more CDs of classical music at a time when we go to Tower Records. We live in a modest house with books and records and computers and bulldog toys, not art and sculpture and glittery things." Andreessen and Horn have just moved to another rented house, this one with three bedrooms. "I have a girlfriend," he says. "That's one of the reasons...
...prayer. As two planes readied to take off from parallel runways and 33 planes cruised the surrounding air corridors, one of the airport's power systems shorted out. That tiny malfunction shut down all radarscopes, telephone lines, landing-instrument systems, radio connections and lights inside the air-control tower. "You have to visualize a radarscope showing two planes aimed at each other from 50 miles away," says Barry Krasner, president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association. "Your equipment goes down for [six] minutes. When your equipment comes back up, where are those two airplanes? The answer is that they...
...wrote in The Souls of Black Folk, "The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line," then some of the best responses to this problem will be developed at Harvard. Most of Harvard's black scholars are public intellectuals; instead of hiding in the ivory tower, devising fantastic theories, they are informing some of the most controversial contemporary debates. They bring understanding and reason to some of the most bitter and hysterical contentions which threaten to divide our society...