DUBLIN, Ohio, June 2 — Will MacKenzie’s hobbies include heliboarding in Alaska and surfing in Hawaii.

I looked up from my desk and saw that suddenly there were big flakes twirling down into the quadrangle, settling on the carefully pruned shrubbery bordering the crosswalks, the three elms still holding many of their leaves, the still-green lawns.

After six years of hard work, the engineers had brought the project to fruition.

Lambert's hair is sometimes red, sometimes not, but nowadays it is hennaed and often pinned back with a mother-of-pearl comb.