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...gazing out at the Sunda Strait, which separates Sumatra from Java, saw the surface of the ocean suddenly whiten, go still, then become oil-slick smooth. Like an unsuspecting sorority girl in a horror movie, he shrugged it off as insignificant--just part of the region's usual seismic background noise. Ninety-nine days later, the nearby volcanic island of Krakatoa exploded, producing probably the loudest sound heard in human history and killing more than 36,000 people...
Nowinski’s background is certainly not the same as the one he claims on television. He hails from a humble middle-class family in Arlington Heights, Illinois, the son of a hotel manager and a high school guidance counselor, each of whom took a little bit of time to get used to the idea of their Harvard-educated son as a professional wrestler...
...will blend martial images with rhetoric about tax cuts and never let the nation forget that we're at war both abroad and at home. "Sure, he talked about his domestic agenda," says a White House official of the St. Louis event, "but there were F-18s in the background." Yes, Bush will focus on kitchen-table concerns, but there will always be the shadow of guns just behind...
Could the spread of SARS in Toronto have been stopped that first night? Tse spent almost 24 hours in Scarborough Grace before he was placed in isolation. Says Dr. Sandy Finkelstein, who was on call that day: "His mother had died of a respiratory illness, and his background was Asian, and until proven otherwise, that's tuberculosis in my book. At which point I put him in the isolation room." Finkelstein also told the rest of the family members to isolate themselves, which they did. But he did not order the isolation of any of the patients and healthworkers with...
...University) to the emergence of new choral and a capella groups (interest in participation has expanded beyond the dozen already on campus). The ever more competitive admissions process has helped fuel this expanding interest in the arts; it is rare to find a Harvard first-year with no artistic background or training. An increasingly well-rounded—and often determined—student body has led to a flurry of new arts activity. The Office for the Arts (OFA) now estimates that approximately 3,000 undergraduates—about half the College’s students?...