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...background and varied levels of experience with wine,” Ford writes.While second-year law student Bryce S. Klempner ’00 joined the club just this year, he is no stranger to the social benefits of wine. As a co-founder of an “underground port club” at Leverett House, joining Vino seemed like the logical next step. But Klempner says he has “little experience—more than none, but not much more.”No background in wine tasting is necessary for Vino membership...
...Energy's Nevada Test Site, Rufus Moore usually pays scant attention to the antinuclear protesters who often appear at the perimeter of the top-secret patch of desert 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas. The 1,350-sq.-mi. site in the Nellis Range has absorbed hundreds of underground blasts as the U.S. has fine-tuned its nuclear arsenal. For Moore, 54, a cigar-chomping veteran of hundreds of such tests, nuclear deterrence and superpower peace depend on the results. "The minute we stop testing, we're in trouble," he says. "I'm not just saying this because...
...since 1961, views the protesters as "sincere in their feeling, but they don't understand the big picture." When he drives from his home in nearby Pahrump to the heavily guarded site, Moore enters a domain pockmarked with gaping craters, a lunar- like legacy of blasts thousands of feet underground. Many of Moore's 5,500 colleagues labor in cavernous horizontal tunnels that are bored into the granite mesas. To the worker, the test site represents not a nuclear underworld but a well-paid job. "You get used to it, feels like home," says Don Maxwell, 44, an underground surveyor...
...flickers on the rock walls. Labyrinthine cables coil along the floor, and the tunnel reverberates with a sometimes deafening din, punctuated by shouts and horn blasts. In an eerily normal scene near ground zero, a surveyor chats on a Touch-Tone wall phone. The atmosphere is that of an underground lab rather than a staging ground for Armageddon...
...swears he would if he had a car, a driver’s license, or money.“I’m a little bit disappointed,” says Evan L. Hanlon ’08, a music director and DJ for WHRB’s underground rock department, Record Hospital (RH), and a major organizing force behind RH’s upcoming two-night concert. “If it happened it would have been almost too good to be true,” continues Hanlon. But the independent festival didn’t have the funds...