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...eminent backstop Gary Carter. "We're all just fortunate to be part of Dwight's world," Carter likes to say. Last year this pleasure included eight shutouts and strings of 14 victories, 31 scoreless innings and 49 innings without a run earned. Gooden and the St. Louis Cardinals' ace John Tudor stared each other into stupors, but even Tudor picked himself second for the Cy Young. "Just one time," Tudor said, "I'd like to throw a ball like that." Leaving only the archaic record holders in peace, Gooden forced Herb Score to share another modern mark: two 200-strikeout...
...spikers fell six points behind at 6-12 when a Bulldog shot landed in the middle of all six Crimson players, but Harvard closed the gap thanks to the spiking of Jin Park, the tips of Riopelle and Bob Kwun, and an ace by Seth Farber...
...guided the spacecraft so that fellow crew members could retrieve a broken Solar Max satellite, which was repaired on board and later placed back into orbit. At an in-flight press conference, Scobee and the mission's four other astronauts showed up in T shirts that read ACE SATELLITE REPAIR...
...status report is an annual project of the American Council on Education (ACE), a lobbying and research group supported by about 1700 colleges and universities...
Sarah Melendez, co-author of the study and director of ACE's Office of Minority Concerns, said yesterday that minority enrollment has been declining since 1980. She said the decline was spurred by a $6 million federal financial aid cut during the first year of the Reagan Administration and an 11.8 percent increase in college costs between...