Articles from
September 2006
September 6, 2006
Chapter 1: The start of something terrifying
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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