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Harvard continues its Ivy hunt this weekend at home, taking on Princeton Friday and Penn Sunday. On Sunday before the match, Harvard will inaugurate the Beren Tennis Center, the new 18-court outdoor tennis complex...
...only by wild and woolly creatures. But since e-commerce marched in, cyberspace has looked less like a private Narnia or Wonderland and more like a tourist-infested Disneyland. These days, I've found a a much better way to unlock secret digital worlds: Go on an Easter-egg hunt...
Intrigued? The best place to launch your hunt is eeggs.com run by Redmond, Wash., programmer David Wolf. Like Alice, Wolf had no idea what he was getting into when he started the site. "I thought there were maybe 10, 15 eggs," he says. It now gives instructions for cracking more than 1,500 software-based eggs. That's a heck of a lot of secret Narnias. And you'll never know how many more are out there until you start burrowing through that secret digital wardrobe...
Surprisingly, even Geoff Marcy, the leader in the increasingly successful hunt for planets outside our solar system, feels that we may well be alone in the universe. Most of the 33 newly discovered planets--giant gas bags all, including those two new ones--swing so erratically around their parent stars that they would create havoc on any smaller, nearby, life-friendly planets...
...University Marshal Richard M. Hunt, who handles dignitaries' visits, could not be reached for comment yesterday afternoon...