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A Forgotten Chinese Explorer

IN HIS LATEST BOOK, Zheng He (White Star, 2006), award-winning National Geographic photographer Michael Yamashita ’71 pays tribute to Admiral Zheng He, who sailed from Ming Dynasty China and made seven voyages in 28 years (1405–1433), visiting 30 countries. Before the expeditions of Columbus, da Gam…
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The Race

NEW LONDON, CONNECTICUT. APRIL 1986. The water rushes by a mere six inches below me. I do not notice. I have spent hundreds, perhaps thousands of hours in this position. I am the “seven man” in an eight-man racing shell,…
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Passion for Ideas

AT 3:45 P.M., MICHAEL ROTH ’78 WAS HURRYING TO FINISH HIS LUNCH, an orange-colored soup in a plastic take-out container. Finding any time at all to eat had been difficult that day because he had flown from Los Angeles ba…
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Peapod Ripens

BANANAS ARE THE NUMBER-ONE SELLING ITEM AT PEAPOD, the Internet’s leading grocery service. You might imagine that consumers would want to choose their own bananas to avoid bruised fruit. That they trust Peapod to avoid…
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Supersized Debate

BY LAURA DEMANSKI AMERICANS ARE GETTING FATTER; that much we know. In the last decade, the U.S. Surgeon General, the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—the list goes on—have do…
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The Bennet Style

Students present at Doug Bennet’s inauguration remember the event not for the speeches but for the party that followed. Hours after the formalities had ended, a drenching rain turned the Center for the Arts courtyard, si…
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