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...board of directors blamed neighborhood terrorists. And one local teenager set fire to Harvard Stadium in the closing days of the ’81 school year.Most of the stadium’s massive concrete amphitheater was left unharmed, but the arsonist found easy kindling in the wooden press box. The ancient structure had played home to decades of reporters and commentators, and it has hosted such diverse events as Harvard football games, Olympic soccer matches, and a Bob Marley concert. The aging 46-year-old press box provided almost no resistance to the encroaching flames. High winds made...
...carbon-fiber paddles designed specifically for dragon boats. A former engineer for a mountain-bike company, Chang got involved with dragon boats in 1999 and quickly became an lite competitor, traveling to events in Europe, Australia and Canada. He soon realized that boaters were slowed by traditional wooden paddles, and he designed a lighter, stiffer version that he started selling in 2000 under the brand Burnwater...
...beginning years were very tough, because people were used to spending $30 or $40 for a cheap wooden paddle," Chang says. But individual members of his own team bought and promoted the paddles, figuring they might invest just as much, about $200, in a carbon-fiber tennis racquet. The Foster City, Calif., company's sales got a boost in 2003 when the entire Australian national team ordered Burnwater paddles. Chang sells about 100 paddles a month, six times as many as he sold two years ago, and has competition from a handful of other companies making their own high-tech...
...visible shock and frustration of a few students hidden behind piles of library books. With that, the night had begun. By 6 a.m., another group of students had shed their headphones and shirts in favor of computer speakers and a topless dance party. On top of the wooden tables usually reserved for laptops, Red Bulls, and bound books, the students moved awkwardly to techno for the short period before the “Anti-Fun Czar” (i.e., the late-late-night guard) entered with orange citation slips in hand. As one student discovered on a 24-hour study...
...entertaining and gracious prose styles of his gracious generation, he initiates us into the long-lost delights of being a moviegoer in the 1930s ("We were the lucky ones, we first citizens of film"), a baseball fan in the age of Ruth and DiMaggio, a motorist when cars had wooden-spoked wheels, a drinker during the ascendancy of the martini and a New Yorker editor of sufficiently long standing to have worked with William Shawn, James Thurber, Ogden Nash and Donald Barthelme. He was born lucky and he knows it, but he also knows that luck is never quite enough...