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...sign over the office copier is the kind of Dilbertesque humor one might see anywhere in cubicle land. But in a warren of basement rooms under Princeton University's engineering quad, the meaning is more, well, meaningful. The Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) laboratory, after all, explores how the human mind affects machines. Anomalies is the key word: something different, abnormal, peculiar or not easily classified. In this case, they are the elusive powers of consciousness. Can the emanations of the brain really make the copier malfunction? Or maybe turn on the lights or even cause airplanes to fall from...
...renovation of Holden Chapel basement is one of the few summer construction projects that hit an unexpected stumbling block. When workers found human remains in the basement walls, construction ground to a halt...
...renovated basement, which will include expanded rehearsal space for choral groups, was originally slated to be complete by the time classes begin in the fall. But with the interruption caused by the bones, the project will likely finish in the first weeks of the school year...
...potter's wheel sits still now, covered by cobwebs, in the basement. And Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, 48, the Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, has emerged as the most promising of the next wave of political Kennedys. Although she is the only Kennedy ever to lose an election--she was beaten in a congressional race in 1986--she has since been elected twice statewide. And after five years in the job, where she has focused on fighting crime and boosting economic development, she is preparing to run for Governor in 2002. Her ambitions still reach beyond the state line...
Broadcasting out of Pennypacker Hall's basement at 6,000 watts, it is still unlikely that WHRB will be able to reach out to as large an audience as bigger stations could...