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Before Cousteau, undersea exploration was limited by the length of a human breath or the tether on a diving helmet. His co-invention of the Aqua-Lung in 1943 freed us to roam the ocean depths--like an "archangel" flying through the heavens, as he put it. Maker of more than 150 films, beginning with his Oscar-winning The Silent World in 1956, Cousteau revealed a flotilla of wondrous creatures to an audience that was instantly entranced. In his last book, Man, Octopus and Orchid, published shortly after his death in 1997 at the age of 87, Cousteau summed...
...proof that made Kurt Godel famous--had enormous consequences in the world at large. For what this eccentric young Cambridge don did was to dream up an imaginary machine--a fairly simple typewriter-like contraption capable somehow of scanning, or reading, instructions encoded on a tape of theoretically infinite length. As the scanner moved from one square of the tape to the next--responding to the sequential commands and modifying its mechanical response if so ordered--the output of such a process, Turing demonstrated, could replicate logical human thought...
Terrell McIntyre, who led Clemson with 17 points, dribbled the length of the court but his desperation 25-footer was off the mark, and the Golden Bears rushed the floor to celebrate their first postseason title in 40 years...
...Harvard flies off to sunny locales and tans themselves on sandy beaches, we at Dartboard will be dusting off our number 2 pencils and setting our alarms for the pre-sunrise hours. Yep, it's MCAT season, and Kaplan has provided us with enticing spring break plans--two full length practice exams, falling like perfect bookends on the two Saturdays of the vacation week. And when we aren't engaged in taking the practice exams, we should probably be studying for the real one. Unlike you lucky pre-laws, those of you just taking the general GREs or you future...
...seemed the perfect plan for money and fame. After building with her thin hands a barrel to enclose her body like a womb and shelter her from her fall over the raging ledge of water, Annie Taylor subsequently became the first person in history to propel herself down the length of Niagara Falls in a barrel...