Word: wonder
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Harvard undergraduates contribute very little to the student government in monetary terms. The term bill fee has remained stagnant since 1983, and the council's total budget pales beside that of other schools. Of course, many students probably wonder why they should reward the council given its poor reputation. We should remember, however, that even despite Springfest disappointments and nauseatingly inane bickering, the council has managed to do something right in the past years-fund student groups...
...wonder the prospect of artificial muscles has NASA, well, pumped. Traditional robots, even in today's miniature sizes, draw heavily from the limited power supplies on a space probe, and their weight translates into higher launch costs. Bar-Cohen says the components required to construct each strip of artificial muscle cost a total of $200, need just four volts of power and weigh only a fraction of an ounce. Says Rob Manning, chief engineer for nasa's Mars Lander missions: "With all of our basketball-sized spacecraft, we're going to need this kind of technology...
These newbies, who have seen the 20- and 30-fold moves of stocks like Amazon and Yahoo, think the danger lies in sitting out these moves in the Pepsis and Mercks. And who is to blame them? Lately I have come to wonder whether the risk-reward parameters I cut my teeth on are as out of date as those of my parents' generation, which saw utilities as safe, conservative growth vehicles that would leave hefty rewards for their children. They didn't. At what point, after how many new fortunes, can we proclaim the old paradigm of stock risk...
...major league teams were clustered in only 10 cities, with St. Louis as the westernmost outpost. In that pre-television era, sports heroes were made out of words, those spoken over the radio during play-by-play broadcasts and those printed in newspapers the next morning. No wonder legends arose. Most people experienced baseball by reading adventure stories in the daily press or by listening, the way the ancient Greeks did, to the voices of the bards...
This weekend the aforementioned "Saving Private Ryan" will likely win the Oscar for Best Picture. But if its director had grown up in today's world, I have to wonder if the film would ever have been made. Growing up outside of Phoenix, Ariz., Steven Spielberg didn't have many friends and was often picked on by his peers. He does not look back fondly on his days in the schoolyard, and it is unfortunate that, as a boy, he had such a difficult time. But if he had been dragged into a therapy group and taught to be more...