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...championships are held at the same time as the dance competition, the teams are always dressed alike, even to go out clubbing or to lunch. The dance and cheer teams practice whenever they’re not competing; complicated cheer stunts on the beach, by the pool, and on the side of the highway are not unusual...
...Gulf shined like mylar." Out for a drive, he remarks, "The clouds were like spills of dark Cool Whip going in slow motion across the sky." In fact, the real world impresses Martin most when it seems artificial. Seeing Dominica standing at night beside the motel's illuminated swimming pool, he observes, "It was as if we were on the set of some strange movie, caught for a second in the middle of one night." In a small town near the motel, he finds "a street that could've been used in a movie about the thirties...
...reflected or transmitted in accordance with the laws of optics. Programmed with a mathematical model of the behavior of light rays, the machines can re-create lighting effects of dizzying complexity. Caltech's Jim Kajiya, for example, has used ray tracing to show how ripples travel through a reflecting pool...
...from the Red Planet. In Invaders from Mars, they manipulate humans by implanting devices in their heads (such a good idea that a remake started filming a few weeks ago). In The Day Mars Invaded the Earth, they incinerate an entire family and flush their ashes down the swimming-pool drain. In The War of the Worlds, the aliens turn their deadly rays on everything in sight. "Welcome to California!" say three friendly Chamber of Commerce types as they walk toward the Martian craft. Zap! More ashes. A minister tries to soothe them with the 23rd Psalm. Zap again! Luckily...
...Brandon M. Terry ’05 wrote a letter to the Senior Class asking them to boycott the Senior Gift. When their letter received a mixed response, they convened an ad hoc group of students and came up with Senior Gift Plus (SGP), an alternate pool of money that would be contributed to the Senior Gift only if Harvard divested from PetroChina. Working with Collins, Bhatnagar, members of the Senior Gift Committee, DAG, and others, they brought their message to this page and to e-mail lists and dinning halls across campus...