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An Armed Society of Scholars
The speed of a bullet exiting the muzzle of an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle is 3200 feet per second.
The gun is not as heavy as it looks. The civilian version of an M-16, the AR-15 has a long, black cylindrical body to which you press the soft side of your cheek. Squint into the glowing red sight, and a laser points the way to a bulls-eye.
On this bright, cold November...
Short Feature
My Yale - Chopping Period
Dodging gray-bladed machines that look as if they might be used for dental surgery, Mark Messier rushes toward the drill press.
“Watch that bit!” he yells, stepping over orange electrical cords and several piles of wood chips. If Usama Qadri ‘10 isn’t careful, he could drill through the wood right into the metal below, ruining not only his project, but also one...
Fiction
Fiction - The Rosebushes
Kyle threw his basketball in the air; on its way down it killed Mrs. Bryant stone dead. It was a clean wholesome April day, and she’d been watering her rosebushes, until the ball descended like the hand of God and slapped her straight into the hereafter.
Harrison, the woman’s neighbor, was first on the scene. Every Saturday he walked his standard poodle to the dog...
Non-Fiction
The Fight of a Dancing Thinker
Before she came to New Haven, before she brought dance to the Yale curriculum, and before she began her crusade to have dance accepted as a legitimate part of an Ivy League education, Emily Coates introduced Twyla Tharp to the Blue Book. At the time, Coates was 29. Taking classes at Fordham University, she had forgone full-time college to pursue a career in dance, first...
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How I learned to love New Haven even though it's about to freeze my butt off
Over Thanksgiving, I was doing some thinking. In the midst of turkey, cornbread stuffing, sweet potatoes, hominy, cranberry sauce, football and pumpkin pie, I found myself preoccupied by Puritans. Puritans --those endearing folks who wandered over to the pleasant shores of New England to seek refuge from religious persecution -- founded one of the most rigidly theocratic...
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Frank Wilczek: Physics for Poets
Frank Wilczek is a physics professor at MIT and a Nobel Laureate. He recently visited Yale to deliver two lectures: "The Origin of Mass and the Feebleness of Gravity" and "The Universe is a Strange Place," and he took time out to speak to the Magazine about music, mastodons and the state of the cosmos. YDNM: The teaser for your lecture, "The Universe is a Strange...
Horoscopes
How to survive the stars this April
Aries "Some say love, it is a river --" but if you haven't even stepped in a puddle or two, it's your own damn fault. Spring is the time to find some and find it fast. Dig your personality up from wherever you left it last time it was over 30 degrees and make some new friends. Taurus The bull is considered a fertility symbol, so be...
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Best of New Haven: Margaritas
The mission: to identify the best margarita in New Haven. The establishments: c.o. jones, Viva Zapata and El Amigo Felix The team: two Mexicans (Alberto Ortega '04 and Rafael Pizarra '04), a Texan (Stephen Milbank '04), someone named Margarita (Margaret Aiken '04), and someone who just drinks a lot (William Frazier '04). The chaos: We wanted the...
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