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Opening the window, I hear the familiar sounds of "ABBA" blasting in the Library Suite, the laughter of a group returning from the Square and the subdued murmurs of a couple sitting under a tree. The Quad is calm and it is alive. The night security guard, John, looks off the porch of the Grand Entryway, in front of the cabinet that will hold the Straus Cup another year. This is a remarkable place, and just think: There are eleven more just like it, but nothing that could ever be the same...
...earthquakes. And in video shot by professional storm chasers and plucky amateurs, funnel clouds whirl forebodingly, kick up a storm of debris and move menacingly closer. Sometimes too close. In one oft-seen clip, a family scrambles for shelter as a tornado bears down on their living room: "Tree just blew over...Get away from the windows...
...pilot. "If there's a machine or device that makes noise, goes fast and blows smoke," he has written, "I want to have one." Or at least try one out. In 1987 neighbors called the local sheriff when he took on the task of chopping down a neighbor's tree--with 720 rounds of machine-gun fire from a borrowed weapon. Not exactly the kind of Christian soldier one usually finds at a revival meeting...
...seen as a provocation. Even after forswearing wine in 1989, he maintains that "alcohol can be good if it is used in moderation," an unusual stance in the strictly teetotal world of his father's generation of Evangelicals. And then there was that incident with the neighbor's tree, about which his only known explanation was that he hadn't realized it would require so many rounds. Martin describes the conflict as "the Rotarians dealing with the gunslinger...
...Indeed, I did some very real soul-searching over the issue of whether or not it made sense--given the availability of important information, such as tutor telephone numbers, by way of that electronic version, as well as through other forms of dissemination--to lay waste to yet more tree's meat in printing hard copies...