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...wisp of a girl, 4 ft. 11 in. tall, a mere 86 lbs.; dark circles above her cheeks; a Kean-eyed elf. Then, with no more strain than it would take to raise a hand to a friend, she is airborne: a backflip, landing on the sliver of a bar with a thunk so solid it reverberates; up, backward again, a second blind flip, and a landing. No 747 ever set itself down on a two-mile runway with more assurance or aplomb. She leaps, twists, spins, and the 18,000 people in Montreal's Forum realize that they...
...want a bit more anonymity. But for those looking for four years of close-knit community, wee colleges come in many flavors. The Thomas More College of Liberal Arts (68 students) in Merrimack, N.H., offers a rigorous Catholic education. The College of the Atlantic (278 students) in Bar Harbor, Maine, has an additional intimacy built into its curriculum, because all students share the same crunchy major, human ecology...
...stories are gaining traction (the headlines appear bigger). And don't miss the new Digg Labs page, offering two visual alternatives to displaying the same info: Swarm http://labs.digg.com/swarm) which looks like a cluster map, and Stack http://labs.digg.com/stack) which resembles more of an expanding and contracting bar graph. Watch the hype as it actually happens...
Eugene Gurkin (Donal Logue) is a janitor with a big ambition. All right, a medium-size one: to open a bar whose signature drink would be the gin Eugene, "a pint glass of nice, cheap room-temperature gin." Lacking the start-up scratch for his business, he hatches a plan when he sees Jagger, who will do cameos throughout the series, on an E! celebrity-home show. He recruits a motley band of burglars--including a lawyer turned cabbie, a security guard and a bombshell waitress with a shady past--and christens them the Knights of the title. "Issue...
...Head pub and sip their first Harvard brews next February, they will be surrounded by wood-paneled walls and decor in the style of Memorial Hall. But members of the Loker Pub Project at first considered sketches that would have made the pub look more like a modern sushi bar than an 18th century British watering hole. The Loker Pub Project initially hired the Boston architecture firm Office dA to conduct a feasibility study last fall. But when the firm’s designers drew up conceptual sketches for a pub that had a more modern feel, students?...