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What was once a disorderly storage space for mechanical equipment and slabs of wood has been transformed into a haven for physics concentrators who long lacked a study space of their own.On Monday, the Department of Physics will unveil an “undergraduate study” in the Jefferson Building that offers amenities for a specialized audience: including a stainless steel wall on which individuals can mount heavy magnetic objects and a table that provides access to pressurized air. These will come in addition to standard features like chalkboards, a projection screen, and a coffee machine...
...road to showcase his new wares at the Venice and Toronto film festivals. He showed up last week on the Lido, a couple of hundred miles from his vacation villa on Lake Como, both to present his Iraq war comedy The Men Who Stare at Goats and to unveil his new inamorata, TV presenter Elisabetta Canalis. When the film broke down at the evening screening, Clooney serenaded the audience with a comic-opera rendition of O Sole Mio that wouldn't make Placido Domingo envious but did wow the crowd. This weekend he's in Toronto with two films, Goats...
Unlike Jeffrey Wigand, the tobacco-industry whistle-blower made famous in the movie The Insider, Potter doesn't have a smoking gun or secret documents to unveil. He signed a confidentiality agreement before leaving Cigna and intends to honor it. "I have no intention of disclosing any proprietary information," he says. For-profit health-insurance-industry practices Potter talks about, like rescission - dropping expensive-to-cover policyholders on grounds that they failed to disclose pre-existing health conditions - are not secrets. This is, in fact, how private health insurers make profits. In Potter's view, these practices just need more...
...spirit in their future efforts to address this issue. To quote Henry David Thoreau, a Harvard graduate of 1837 who lived in the Yard himself, “The world is but a canvas to the imagination.” We are excited to see what this committee will unveil next...
...bare their flesh [Aug. 10]. In the 1970s and 1980s, going topless was a way for women to express their liberation and equality with men. Women's shape and size did not matter. Nowadays, young girls are expected to be liberated, clever, independent and physically perfect. By refusing to unveil their bodies they are rebelling against unrealistic expectations in the same way as their mothers did by burning their bras. Shame on you, South Africa! Anne Favier-Townsend, LUTON, ENGLAND