Archive for February 27th, 2004

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Eternal Egypt On-line

Besides
Catapults, another of the Dowbrigade’s adolescent fascinations was Ancient
Egypt. Today we tend to see Egypt as an interface
between European Enlightenment and Deepest, Darkest Africa and a sort
[…]

Haiti Update: Chaos or Conspiracy?

The story from Haiti gets stranger and stranger. We still
haven’t located any authentic Haitian bloggers.  One interesting
lead was John Engle, an American who WAS blogging from Haiti until Tuesday,
when he and […]

Spacewalk Cut Short by Wardrobe Malfunction

CAPE
CANAVERAL, Fla. - A riskier-than-usual space walk outside the International
Space Station was cut short last night because of a malfunction that
left one of the two crewmen with a warm, damp […]

Last Teaching Day Before the Great Experiment

Finally, the day arrives! Parting is such sweet sorrow. The fates conspired to deliver a class for the record books this final, abbreviated six-week semester, one which we will not only not miss, but one which reminded us on multiple occasions that we have been in the mocrowave long enough and were getting while […]

Cheaper Than a Cat Scan

A security screener at Denver International Airport was reprimanded for
sending his body through an X-ray machine.

"The screener went through the X-ray machine voluntarily," Fierberg
said. "I […]


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