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...TS, built in the 1880s as part of a rail empire connecting commercial outposts and mining camps, cuts a meandering 64-mile-long swath through frontier history along the mountainous border between Colorado and New Mexico. From Memorial Day weekend to mid-October, steam-driven locomotives, restored to mint condition and fired by tons of hand-stoked coal, maneuver around bends and across streambeds and pant up grades as steep as 4% on a track measuring just 36 in. between the rails...
...those of you non-seniors who might be reading this column and asking yourselves whether you should choose to write a thesis, I refer you to a helpful list of "Dos and Don'ts" written by former Crimson columnist Geoffrey C. Upton '99 on this page (Column, April 21, 1999). Read it and think about whether a thesis is the way you want to cap off your Harvard career (instead of doing independent research, taking a couple of seminars, or spending more time on your extracurricular of choice). The only advice I'll echo here is the importance of picking...
Indeed, if one were of the paranoid mind-set fomented by duck-and-cover cartoons and the Sid Davis oeuvre, one might believe that educators of a radical bent designed these films as reverse social engineering. They knew that kids would take dating dos as don'ts, and vice versa. Some children may never even have considered slouching until Posture Pals told them not to. Did the mental-hygiene cinema of the '50s create the hippies and druggies...
...popular caricature paints Jobs as a brilliant, driven man-child running around Apple in sandals and shorts, screaming at underlings while trying to build the perfect digital machine. By most accounts, this image remains more or less correct. He really does show up most days in shorts and surfer Ts. And intelligence reports from Cupertino, Calif., indicate that the infamously fiery Jobs still has, um, anger-management issues. "Anyone who has worked with Steve during his second tour at Apple will tell you that he's as driven, tense and temperamental as he has ever been," says author Alan Deutschman...
...Model Senate is a way to introduce freshmen to Harvard Model Congress," said co-president Magda C. Guillen'02. By having them serve as delegates, they can "see both sides of the picture." The organization hopes that Saturday's participan ts will join the staff of Model Congress, helping to organize the February conference...