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DIED. JOSHUA MINER, 81, educator who launched the U.S. version of the wilderness self-reliance program Outward Bound; in Andover, Mass. Miner--who had met founder Kurt Hahn in Scotland in 1950--began in Colorado in 1961 with 80 teenagers; 600,000 students, including former President Jimmy Carter, have since taken the course...
...hold until architects can incorporate a luggage-inspection facility several blocks from the terminals. Other gateways are drafting facilities with ductile window frames that flex during explosions. "This isn't the end of glass in terminals," says Ginger Evans, aviation manager at the engineering firm Carter & Burgess Inc. "It just means we might have to utilize it differently." Though more urgent fixes will come first--making space for the new baggage-inspection machines required of the airlines, for example--big alterations are on the way. "There are so many changes to the existing models," says Los Angeles World Airports architect...
...Just days after the attacks Graydon Carter, editor of Vanity Fair, possibly the most sycophantic celebrity magazine in the world, made it clear that there would be a new standard of cool. "Things that are considered fringe and frivolous are going to disappear," he said...
...James M. Carter...
Black history in America is intimately related to the history of Harvard. The national observance of Black History Month that we begin today was created by a Harvard graduate. After noticing the dearth of serious attempts to document black history, Carter G. Woodson ’12 began “Negro History Week” in 1926. In the 1970s, that week blossomed into Black History Month. Woodson was a history concentrator and he was only the second African American to receive a doctorate from Harvard, 276 years after the school’s founding...