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...This year in fact makes last year seem like a glistening beacon of originality, and leggings a glorious flattering invention (I know you may find this hard to believe; I do too, because I looked like Jean Paul Sartre in my leggings). 2007 boasts universally unbecoming trends such as huge puff sleeves, mid-calf length skirts, mod-shift dresses and, horror upon horror, cigarette pants.Sometimes, while daydreaming in a particularly horrible lecture about the life of Wordsworth, for example, I fantasize about what designers were thinking when they designed this year’s collections. Did they all think that...
Sexiest physical trait: Love it when the eyes get huge. So sexy...
...even the most privileged among us cannot escape the realities facing black communities worldwide: AIDS in Botswana and Baltimore, huge incarceration rates of black males in America, or depressed economies and failed governments in Haiti. Each of these issues sparks dialogue and debate, forcing us to consider our responsibility as the black intellectual elite to help solve these problems. Notions of W.E.B. DuBois’ “talented tenth” persist, and every academic year starts with a prerequisite discussion of our great obligation as black Harvard students to effect change...
...from the changes in China's overall political situation. When Chou En-lai died in January 1976 the radicals were still in control, but on the night of April 5, during a festival when the Chinese traditionally visit their ancestors' graves to pay respects, a climactic event occurred. As huge crowds thronged Peking's Tiananmen Square to honor Chou with flowers, wreaths and poems, supporters of Jiang Qing sent in police and militia to disperse the mourners. ''Thousands were killed,'' writes Cheng, ''and tens of thousands wounded. Those found with poems were condemned as counterrevolutionaries and shot without trial...
However, even the slightest asymmetry in these machines can create huge body torques that would ruin the stability of device. While gears and switches work well when designing movement on a large scale, developing such intricate machinery is impossible at the microscopic level. To make flying and hovering possible in MAVs, Wood has developed special materials that offer varying flexibility...