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...Baxter’s work without ever becoming familiar. Early on, Nathanial Mason, the uninspired and confused protagonist, encounters fellow graduate student Theresa on a park bench, where they share an awkward interlude with a homeless man before meeting the infamous Coolberg at a party. Nathanial immediately senses an uncommon and uncomfortable connection with Coolberg, who seems to know facts about Nathanial’s life that Nathanial himself has forgotten. “The Soul Thief” traces the incestuous and turbulent bonds that form as the three spend time together over the following months and that eventually...
...than those thorny organic synthesis problems is the challenge of maintaining your self-confidence when you just fell short of the midterm mean, despite an honest effort. This sort of experience can be devastating to even the most grounded of Harvard’s science talents. It is not uncommon for a sophomore pre-med or biology concentrator to have 20 to 25 hours of class and labs per week, leaving little time for self-reflection, let alone mental health therapy. Pressure escalates and feelings of hopelessness abound, yet relief seems to be nowhere in sight. Honest recognition of this...
...Such a drop, called a loss of circulation, isn't uncommon in gas drilling. It usually means that natural fractures inside the borehole are allowing drilling fluid to leak out. Lapindo's engineers responded by pumping heavy drilling mud into the well to seal the cracks and restore pressure. Then they began to pull out the drill. Davies thinks that while they were removing the drill on the morning of May 28, they set off a massive "kick," in which high-pressure water and gas from the surrounding rock flowed into, rather than out of, the borehole. To prevent...
...Mozambique during Indonesia's occupation, have aggravated the situation by failing to connect with the majority of their compatriots. Senior government officials live lives of relative luxury, in stark contrast to the lot of the vast majority of East Timorese. (Because Dili is a small town, it's not uncommon to see such officials dining in trendy Portuguese cafés situated near the poor and homeless squatting in tents.) Portuguese is the official language of the government, which means that most East Timorese, who speak Indonesian or the local language Tetum, cannot understand, or participate in, political discourse...
...dark, crowded room on the tenth floor of the Science Center last night, students took turns looking through a telescope at an uncommon sight: the moon darkened rust-red by the shadow of the earth...