Volume 118 >> Issue 49 : Tuesday, October 13, 1998

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News

• Sloan Falls in Ranking
• Duct Tape Celebrated at Ig Nobel Ceremony
• Low Attendance Hinders Speech and Debate Open
• William E. Griffith '78
• Rutgers Student Dies From Alcohol-Related Injuries
• Errata

World and Nation

• Members of NATO Authorize Strike Against Serb Province
• Clinton's IMF Proposal Earns Tentative Approval in Congress
• Gay Assault Victim Dies; Not a Hate Crime, Claims Accomplice
• Three Americans Win Nobel Prize for Work With Blood Signaling
• News Briefs I
• News Briefs II
• Weather: A Short Break

Columns

• Putting Partisan Bickering Aside: Impeachment Inquiry Should Be Fair, Swift, and Nonpartisan
• A Very Elemental Life
• Fair Weather Friends to FSILGs

Letters to the Editor

• Task Force Editorial Inaccurate
• Preserve Housing Choices

Sports

• MIT Tennis Earns Wins Against Brandeis and Clark
• MIT Women's Squad Wins Ultimate Meet
• Upcoming Home Events

Photographs

Omar Roushdy
Donald A. Norman discusses the quirks of technology sales in a presentation titled "The Invisible Computer" and sponsored by the MIT Press Thursday in Room 34-101.

Ying Lee -- The Tech
Several Nobel Laureates help a viewer keep his seat with the help of several rolls of Duck Tape, the official adhesive of this yearUs Ig Nobel Prizes.

T. Luke Young -- The Tech
A spectacular harvest moon created an evening sunrise above Boston's skyline last week.

Ying Lee -- The Tech
Troy Hurtubise, of North Bay, Ontario, won this year's Ig Nobel Prize in Safety Engineering for conceiving, designing, and personally testing a suit of armor that is impervious to grizzly bears.

Francsica Rojas
Observing the traditions of the Sukkot holiday, MIT students sit in a Sukkah, a structure symbolizing the huts where Jews lived during their journey from Egypt.