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...present. It gives us a legitimacy with a geneology that extends further back than first generation. It is unfortunate that at the same time women are working to unearth our unsung heritage from the musty archives of the past, we would move to bury Radcliffe in that same vault. I fervently hope there will come a time when historians will look back on the separation of Harvard and Radcliffe with bemused curiosity--pondering the mystery of an era which associated so many wildly irrelevent activities to a person's genitals. But that time has not yet come. And until...
...walls were no problem, but the roof defeated me," Fathy recalls. "If I used structural materials, the house became too expensive for the peasants. If I tried to build a vaulted roof using only mud bricks, the whole thing collapsed." The problem was that a vault, like any arch, has structural strength only when it is complete, and the peasants lacked wood to support the arch while it was being built. Still, Fathy remembered that the ancient Egyptians had somehow built sturdy houses of the same material. But, he says, "I feared that the secret had been lost...
...Nubia that Fathy rediscovered the technique. Native brick masons could create a clean vault of bricks by first building the back wall of the house higher than the intended roof level. Then they built the arched roof, inclining it slightly against the wall, which provided support until the arch was completed. The roofs would not fall in earthquakes, and the technique was so simple that it could be used anywhere in the world...
Snow Job. Sampson had altered that proposed budget to curtail the unsupportable $100,000 allocation for miscellaneous expenses. In seeming exchange, however, he added a $110,000 item for a special vault to house Nixon's tapes and papers at Laguna Niguel, within 20 miles of San Clemente...
...become fashionable to have a homosexual or bisexual experience. On the other hand, at some campuses there has been a noticeable reaction against the new permissiveness. For example, one women's dormitory at the University of Michigan used to be sniggeringly called "Prudes' Palace" or the "Virgin Vault" because men were banned above the first floor during weekdays. This year, however, it has a waiting list of more than 50 coeds...