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...Scott Westerfeld, whose Uglies novels are huge best sellers, chose a steampunk setting for his new young-adult series. Leviathan, published in October, tells the story of two teenagers--an Austrian prince and an English girl passing as a boy--in a Europe divided between the Austro-Hungarian Clankers, who are technologists, and the British Darwinists, who are bioengineers. "Leviathan takes place as World War I begins, which is the end of the early era of technological romance," Westerfeld explains. "Those first tanks and other machines of war look almost comical to us now, but to the first soldiers...
Steampunk is like a snapshot from the last moment in human history when technology was intelligible to the layman. "The Internet is global and seemingly omniscient, while iPods and phones are all microscopic workings encased in plastic blobjects," Westerfeld says. "Compare that to a steam engine, where you can watch the pistons move and feel the heat of its boilers. I think we miss that visceral appeal of the machine...
Madeleine F. Warren, Assistant Professor of Physiology; Wilfred W. Westerfeld, Associate in Biological Chemistry; John H. Dingle, Associate in Medicine; Charles A. Janeway, Associate in Medicine; Nathan B. Talbot, Associate in Pediatrics; Leslie Silverman, Associate in Industrial Hygiene; Joe V. Meigs, Clinical Professor of Gynaecology; Carl T. Nelson, Associate in Clinical Dentistry; David Weisberger, Associate in Clinical Dentistry...
During the southern trip the University nine defeated Williams by the score of 5 to 3, at Philadelphia, in a 10-inning game. Westerfeld, who will pitch for Williams today, struck out 11 men and allowed only six hits. Since then the Williams team has won most of its important games, defeating Brown, 5 to 2, which won from Harvard, 2 to 1, Western, 11 to 2, and Dartmouth, 3 to 0: the score made by the University team against Dartmouth was 3 to 1. Williams last to Pennsylvania, 5 to 7, and to Holy Cross, which defeated Harvard...
...batting order: HARVARD. WILLIAMS. Mahar, r.f. c., McCarty Leonard, 3b. 2b., Bonham Randall, 1b. s.s., Nesbitt Matthews, s.s. p., Westerfeld Stephenson, c. l.f., Hogan Dexter, c.f. 3b., Neild Kernan, l.f. c.f., Warren Coburn, Castle, p. 1b., Harmon Bradbury, 2b. r.f., Wadsworth...
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