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...considers one of the best for-student facilities around. To gain access, students must complete a 25-hour course involving such projects as constructing a steam engine and a cannon. Unfortunately, non-concentrators must pay a $350 fee. For safety’s sake, he runs a tight ship: “Its about coming out of here with ten fingers versus not.” The record is good— the last serious accident was in 1967. In those days of long hair and loose morals, a trendy young physicist got his hair caught in a spinning lathe...
...Fighting Irish transfer Michael Morgalis wanted to leave more than just his nickname in South Bend. After just two appearances as a freshman and none as a sophomore, Morgalis jumped ship in search of more playing time—and found it at Harvard...
...attack comes, he'll need them for doctors and patients alike. The nearby fighting has created a steady stream of patients. Surgery goes on nonstop all day. Warren, an orthopedic surgeon, just operated on a 5-month-old Iraqi girl, who was later airlifted to the hospital ship U.S.S. Comfort. She was in her mother's arms when shrapnel passed through both her feet. Her mother didn't survive. Says Warren: "We didn't expect to be operating on children here...
When the Soviet ship Baltika throbbed into New York harbor one morning in September 1960, demonstrators on a chartered sightseeing boat waved placards: ROSES ARE RED, VIOLETS ARE BLUE; STALIN DROPPED DEAD. HOW ABOUT YOU? Nikita Khrushchev laughed and pointed. A few weeks later at the United Nations, a Philippine delegate gave a speech complaining about the Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe. Khrushchev astonished the General Assembly by taking off his brown loafer and banging it on the table as if it were a spoon on an infant's high chair, except that in this case the banging...
...might consider playing the Course at Yale to be equivalent to shifting lounge chairs on a sinking ship. If so, the Harvard men’s golf team has found the perfect deckhand in junior Andrew Klein...