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...always controlled chaos," Stone said. "We pulled the goaltender and had Kalen pop out there. I was most impressed with Chrstie MacKinnon. A senior, very poised, she rips two shots, and bang, the freshman puts...
...scientist and educator, Tyson also knew that the existing planetarium, with its '30s design and technology, didn't come close to conveying the astonishing discoveries modern astronomy has made in the past few decades, from the Big Bang to black holes. Plummeting attendance in recent years simply confirmed that the Hayden was more compelling as memory than as fact. So Tyson set aside his nostalgia, sat down with architect James Polshek and exhibition designer Ralph Applebaum and got to work...
...strange world. Conservative critics (Robert Bork, for example) have said that it originated in the Big Bang of the '60s. But in a new book called "HOW WE GOT HERE - The 70s: The Decade That Brought You Modern Life (For Better or Worse)" (Basic Books, 418 pages, $25), David Frum offers a more interesting and more nuanced thesis...
...life of a ROTC student begins at 5:30 a.m. at least twice a week. On one dreary, wet Monday morning at 7, eight members of the Navy ROTC program climb on the shuttle that whisks them to MIT. The damp day is scheduled to start with a bang: a thermodynamics quiz. So as the bus rattles down the road, Raymond L. Andrews '03 frantically tries to cram half of the book into his brain while the other ROTC students are huddled in the back, trying to stay warm while quizzing each other on the first and second laws...
...personal details seep into his story. He is a New Yorker, born in the Bronx during the Depression. He has written for the movies, enjoys women, music and bird watching and keeps up on the latest theories of the cosmologists. After setting down a bravura description of the Big Bang, Everett adds, "In fact if God is involved in this matter, these elemental facts, these apparent concepts, He is so fearsome as to be beyond any human entreaty for our solace, or comfort, or the redemption that would come of our being brought into His secret...