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Deadlines, the Bane of Our Existence
There’s a quote attributed to Douglas Adams that goes like this: “I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.”
So, the January-February issue was supposed to go to the printer on Monday. As per normal, it didn’t. Actually, in our defense, we did get most of it out, and a few more pages yesterday, and we just have one more feature and the cover to get out the door today. Or tomorrow. (No! Please, let us get this thing out of our hair today.) Luckily we have a very forgiving and flexible printer, and the magazine always manages to get mailed to readers on time.
I thought I’d share the opening spread of just one of our four features for January-February. Back in October, in the week leading up to the Michigan game, Senior Editor Ryan Jones spent a lot of time up at Paternoville—he even camped out with the students outside the stadium one night. (The students were in tents, but Ryan, being tough, just slept in a sleeping bag under the stars.) He wrote a first-person account of the experience, called “Our Town.” It’s a lot of fun. Click on the photo to see a larger-size version of the opening spread.
Other features in this issue include a profile of Doug Moorhead ’56, who runs Presque Isle Wine Cellars in Erie, and a roundup of reader-submitted stories about how they and their Penn State buddies have kept in touch over the years. And perhaps the centerpiece of the Jan-Feb feature well (that’s what we call it in the biz: the “feature well”) is a story by Jason Fagone in which he went to eastern Europe to watch as U.S. Energy Department employees, led by Andrew Bieniawski ’89, removed some nuclear fuel from a Soviet Union-era reactor in Hungary and sent it on its way to Russia for reprocessing. It’s part of a global effort to keep nuclear fuel out of the hands of terrorists. Quite possibly the coolest assignment on which we’ve ever sent a writer.
Look for the Jan-Feb issue to be in your mailboxes by about Dec. 31 or early January, depending on where you live.
Tina Hay, editor
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