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...cosmetics and clothes that reflected Western fashion were tossed onto the streets to be carted away or burnt. One day, I decided to venture out to see all this for myself. Red Guards were stopping buses and punishing passengers whose clothes they disapproved of. (In my old shirt and wide trousers, I blended in.) I saw a group of Red Guards leading an old man on a length of rope, shouting and hitting him with a stick. Suddenly he collapsed. When he did not get up, the Red Guards jumped on him. The old man shrieked in pain. ''Dirty capitalist...
Wood’s lab hosts a wide array of technology, from miniature helicopters for studying hovering mechanisms to high-power laser machinery for precisely cutting materials. The whiteboards overflow with scribbled equations and drawings...
While even Wood concedes that his work may seem “science-fiction-esque,” there are wide-ranging applications for these flying machines...
...misses as fuel for the fast break—the Crimson shot just 8-of-26 in the opening period—the Lions rebounded the ball and quickly got it up court, opening up opportunities to drive to the basket for layups or kick the ball out for wide-open shots from behind the arc. “We wanted to play more up-tempo, that was a big thing for us, to push the ball more,” Columbia coach Joe Jones said. “Our guys did a great job of running the floor...
...significance of the fact that a large number of scientists from various backgrounds were able to agree with such a high level of certainty. However, Holdren said, the price of such a consensus is an understatement of the severity of the consequences of global warming due to the wide range of views that were taken into account. “Most people who are experts would say the IPCC is a conservative floor on what we know,” he said. “The reality is likely to be worse than the middle of the road...