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Articles from September 2006

HIGH STAKES Chapter 1: The start of something terrifying

September 6, 2006

Chapter 1: The start of something terrifying

Analog? Digital? Motorola? Who needs a watch when you have a phone?

September 6, 2006

Trevor Abbot ’08 didn’t wear a watch today. He hasn’t worn one for the past two years. “Why would I need to wear a watch?” Abbot said. “Since I started carrying my cell phone with me everywhere and since I always have it in hand because I’m always using it, I just glance at it when I need to tell the time. My cell phone is my watch.”

The hidden cost of the text message

September 6, 2006

Although it has been widely used in Europe since 1995, text messaging has only been possible in the United States since 2002.

Katrina: It was 105°; nails kept dropping. It was like ‘The Simple Life.’

September 6, 2006

The plane landed on the sticky ground. I could see the summer heat rising from the black-tarred runway. Even though I was comfortably seated in the air-conditioned plane, I could feel the heat cover my body like a blanket of humidity smothering my skin.

Katrina: ‘Just the act of going helped’

September 6, 2006

Although it has been over a year since Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, by most accounts, the region is still in shambles.

‘So, your dad and I are getting divorced’

September 6, 2006

About 11 percent of students on the upper campus have parents who are divorced or separated, according to an informal review of the Red Book.

Beirut bombing prevents family reunion in Lebanon

September 2, 2006

Tarek Tohme’s ’08 family, including brother Ramez ’06, was in for a surprise when they landed at London Heathrow airport on July 14. They were planning on catching a connecting flight to Lebanon, but they ran into a problem.  The Beirut airport had been bombed.

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