Word: 77th
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...bounce a cellular call from one to another, then beam the data stream downward 420 miles to one of 12 earth stations where the call would enter the terrestrial telephone network. Motorola dubbed the system--and the company it spun off to build and operate it--Iridium, after the 77th element on the periodic table. (After trimming the number of satellites required to 66, Motorola wisely chose not to go with the name of the corresponding element, the practically unpronounceable Dysprosium...
...change that means the most to critics of education is that Stanford's test scores are on the rise--particularly in mathematics, where the sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders were, respectively, in the state's 77th, 74th and 66th percentile rank. Another measure of the school's success is its desirability: four years ago, the school accepted every student who applied; this year 200 students had to be turned away...
...their 77th annual spring tour, they plan to hit Houston, Dallas, Austin and San Antonio...
After Heps, Harvard went to the ECAC Championships at Franklin Park, from which runners could compete for the NCAAs. There, Goetze qualified provisionally with a time of 17:49 and eventually made the national field. Schotte (32nd), sophomore Margaret Angell (48th), senior Alexandra Delaney (56th) and Martin (77th) rounded out the Harvard finishers...
Next came the IC4A's, the men's version of the ECAC Championships. There, Carswell came in seventh, giving him an automatic spot at NCAAs, and he was followed by Lonergan (51st), Bundle (77th), Shearer (111st) and sophomore Jamey Bianchi (151st...