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...make sure our money is going to an organization that is going to make a positive impact." Although she thinks the lodge could improve its green attributes, Yuan is impressed. "It's very in harmony with the environment," she says. As hundreds of bats wheel through the evening sky, tour guide Ian Worcester steers his small boat through the placid waters of the nearby Daintree River, spotting leaflike shadows that, on closer inspection, turn out to be azure kingfishers. Flowers that bloom for just one night a year open underneath the drooping branches of native cherry and nutmeg trees...
...witnessed him work at “warped speed” for six months, from initial tissue engineering to creating the original design of the device to microfabricating it in the University’s Center for Nanoscale Systems cleanroom. Parker praised the project as a “tour de force of engineering—far beyond what we train.” Chelsea S. Simmons ’06 and Robert J. Everett ’06 tied for second place, applying their engineering skills to create projects that would improve surgical techniques. Working with DePuy Spine...
...idea of going to a women’s college. But from the moment I stepped on campus during a summer visit, I was absolutely in love with Harvard. It could have been the colonial architecture, the 14 million books in the library, or my cute tour guide, but I was charmed by the school’s certain je ne sais quoi. Like any love affair, the beginning was magical—shiny early acceptance letters, bright new hoodies, a party-filled prefrosh weekend. But these great feelings continued through a virtually seamless first year of good friends, great...
...magazine's decision to portray the Muslim prophet in perdition. The cartoon borrowed an image from Dante's Inferno, in which Mohammed languishes in hell, sliced in two for the crime of "dividing" faith in God. Studi's editors then placed in the mouth of Dante's infernal tour guide, Virgil, the remark that a guy next to Mohammed "with his pants down" represented Italy's current policy toward Islam, which the magazine's editors apparently regard as too lenient...
...former Surgeon General David Satcher and Princeton professor Cornel West, that will reach No. 1 on next week's nonfiction paperback list--just went to church. Published in February by the small black-owned Third World Press, the Covenant has sold 250,000 copies, many on Smiley's barnstorming tour of African-American congregations around the U.S. Each revival-like meeting has drawn hundreds--in some cities, thousands--with many in the audience buying armloads of books to give to friends and relatives. The book is a nonpartisan agenda for black progress. Its prescriptions range from the individual-- "Invest...