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...Harvard pressure-cooker gets pretty hot mid-semester and by mid-May classes have reechoed boiling point. Your friends vanish, the humming of the Cabot Library fans becomes the soundtrack to your life and you start to hear The Crimson hit your door before you've hit the covers...
Soon Ho was roaming the earth as a covert agent for Moscow. Disguised as a Chinese journalist or a Buddhist monk, he would surface in Canton, Rangoon or Calcutta--then vanish to nurse his tuberculosis and other chronic diseases. As befit a professional conspirator, he employed a baffling assortment of aliases. Again and again, he was reported dead, only to pop up in a new place. In 1929 he assembled a few militants in Hong Kong and formed the Indochinese Communist Party. He portrayed himself as a celibate, a pose calculated to epitomize his moral fiber...
...Jack's leaves you laughing all the way to the bank, you might want to save time and buy one while you're there. The "Buddha Money Mystery" makes coins appear, vanish and change, the "Chinese Wallet" will change your cash into a fortune, and the "Money Maker" cranks in blank paper and spits out dollars. Jack's can teach you how to put a cigarette through a quarter or how to place a half dollar through the neck of a bottle and out again. Budding magicians who want to learn the tricks of the trade can choose from Jack...
According to Samuel C. Cohen '00, council vice-president, when the system was found last December, "we made it very clear...that it would be treated as theft" were it to vanish a second time...
Brett Dewey, a Los Angeles television writer, recalls the moment he decided to go electric. "I see the mountains from my office window for a third of the year," he says. "The other two-thirds of the year, they vanish behind the smog." Last June he thought of the $75 a month in gas he could save by trading his 15-m.p.g. Toyota 4Runner for an EV1. "While I was debating," he recalls, "I looked out my window and the mountains were gone." Likewise, actors Mary Steenburgen and Ted Danson, president of the American Oceans Campaign, replaced their Ford Explorer...