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Balinese dive master Gede Sama holds up a sea cucumber while diving off the coast of Bali, Indonesia on June 9, 2008.

Spaniards celebrate the win of the European Cup in Puerta Jerez in Seville, Spain on June 29.

An origami butterfly, designed and built by Michael G. LaFosse and Richard L. Alexander, is seen hanging on display August 8 in the Stata Center.

Grammy Award-winning Rascal Flatts play at the Hatch Shell during the Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular on July 4.

Friday’s fireworks display by Pyro Spectaculars Inc. is seen from the roof of the Green Building.

A video still shows lightning striking a crane at the Media Lab Extension construction site, as seen from Eastgate Apartments on June 27.

Crowds gather at the intersection of Causeway St. and Lomasney Way near TD Banknorth Garden where the Boston Celtics won the final game of the NBA Championship finals on June 17 by beating the Los Angeles Lakers 131-92.

Fireworks are launched from the Charles River barge in front of the Boston skyline on July 4.

Workers of Pyro Spectaculars Inc. load fireworks shells into firing tubes on the Charles River barge on July 2.

Fireworks light up the night sky over the Charles River as Boston celebrates Independence Day 2008. See pages 10–11 for more photographs from the Fourth of July.

Paul Pierce, 2008 NBA Finals MVP, holds up his trophy during the Celtics’ Rolling Rally on June 19 on Tremont St. The Boston Celtics defeated the Los Angeles Lakers to clinch their first NBA Championship in 22 years.

Keith Lockhart, longtime conductor for the Boston Pops, tries to set a record for the most people singing “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” at the Hatch Shell on July 4.

MIT students and friends watch the fireworks display from the penthouse of McCormick Hall on July 4.

Crowds watch as fire extinguisher-wielding residents spray down the fire pit right after it was lit to kick off Steer Roast 2008. MIT Senior Haus’ annual weekend-long Steer Roast party started at 5 p.m. on Friday, May...

Oxford mathematician Marcus du Sautoy plays Charlie Parker’s “Yardbird Suite” on trumpet as a fun, yet appropriate diversion in a lecture entitled “The Music of the Primes,” held yesterday evening in 26-100.

Dancers strike a pose at the end of “Greasy Bois & Girls,” a piece choreographed by Bettina H. Tso ’08, in MIT Dance Troupe’s annual spring show, entitled Summer Nights. The show, held in Kresge Little Theatre, runs t...