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Proximity is of such fundamental importance at Harvard that student groups will prefer working out of Yard and river dorm rooms irrespective of the quality of facilities at the Quad. Not even a Quad chateau could mitigate the horrors of a ten-minute trek on a cold winter day with inconvenient shuttle times. And to think it has been a warm winter. What happens when we get a blizzard...
...Taser Remote Area Denial Want to stop rioters rampaging through your embassy? This Star Trek-like force field, which could be ready for deployment by 2008, can be set up in doorways, to deliver a shock to uninvited guests who try to cross its electrified barrier...
...competition to get a short film into Sundance is fierce and the quality of the movies that make it into the festival is high. Usually outshone by the feature competitions, shorts got to screen to wider audiences this year because anybody who couldn't make the trek to Park City - or score tickets once they got there - could download nearly half of Sundance's 71 competing shorts at Apple's iTunes Store for just $1.99 a piece. Films for sale include the German motorcycling documentary Motodrom and High Falls, a relationship drama starring real-life couple Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter...
There was something about Star Trek that sustained it all those years. But with so many entities of Star Trek out there all at once, the audience began to leave it. Now there's a huge experiment going on: Will the audience pick up their love affair? We don't know. And as talented as J.J. is, this is the real test for him. He's got to give a known quantity the Abrams twist and yet maintain the Star Trek game...
...Ellen says her "earliest recollection was of sneaking past the door when he was writing. I always felt that I didn't have his full attention. He seemed to be distant, in his own world." For Simon, the early stages of writing a play are a kind of Freudian trek through the subconscious: "There's no blueprint per se. You just go through the tunnels of your mind, and you come out someplace." It takes him about four months to create a play from nothing but considerably longer to refine it. Sometimes he is simply trying to make the play...