Daily Archives: September 20, 2003
Wright Plane, Wrong Result
A replica of the airplane that Orville and Wilbur Wright flew from Kittyhawk, North Carolina in the early 1900’s is moved into place to attempt a takeoff at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, on Saturday. The recreation, … Continue reading
Sad – Snowflake Melting
An albino gorilla billed as the world’s only such specimen is dying of skin cancer. Since veterinarians broke the bad news, giving the primate just months to live, people have been filing by his cage at Bacelona Zoo to … Continue reading
Central Square Conundrum
What’s up with this? Two days ago this sign went up on Inman St. in the middle of Central Square, Cambridge, in front of Hollywood Express and across from the Post Office. What exactly is a "hollow sidewalk"? And … Continue reading
Harvard Strips Sexy Librarian of Posts
Do frumpish older librarians discriminate against their younger, sexier colleagues? In the librarian business can being a beautiful, intelligent, sexy woman be seen as belonging to a persecuted minority. At Harvard? Wearing low-cut blouses and tight clothes made Desiree Goodwin too … Continue reading
Shoulder Woes Hit Dowbrigade
For the first time in a singularly unspectacular 40-year althletic career I have been suffering the past week from shoulder problems. My doc says it’s tendonitis, inflamtion of the shoulder tendons from overuse. First felt it last Sunday after tennis, and … Continue reading