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...matter how hard they have looked, many other astronomers have been unable to locate Lowell's canals. Most likely, says Franklin A. Gifford Jr. of the U.S. Weather Bureau, Lowell spotted elongated sand dunes that resemble canals from afar; a dune of this sort in Libya extends more than 400 miles and is three miles wide...
...phase of earthly life has profited more than medicine. By adapting the compact electronic equipment designed to monitor the life functions of space travelers, doctors are now able to watch a wardful of seriously ill patients from afar. By modifying a meteoroid sensor, they can detect minute body tremors caused by such neurological disorders as Parkinson's disease. Another adaptation involves the so-called "sign switch": intended to be actuated by the mere movement of an astronaut's eyes so that his hands will be free, it has already been installed in a motorized wheelchair for paraplegics...
Viewed from afar by a remote alumnus it seems clear that conditions in Harvard Yard are no joke. This does not mean, however, that humor outside of University Hall must be exclusively bad humor. The following true and false examination, modeled in shadowy fashion after that of the famed Professor Morgan's course in evidence that used to cause chills and fevers to second-year men at Harvard Law School, may serve as a useful purpose in enabling readers of the CRIMSON to calibrate various aspects of the local situation...
...skirts) stroll about in threes, in fives, push their way into the church. But the nave is crowded. The old women took their places early on Easter eve. They snap at each other and the girls come out. They circle around the courtyard, shout insolently, call each other from afar, and inspect the small green, pink and white flames lit outside the windows of the church and beside the tombs of canons and bishops. As for the boys-tough and mean-looking-all have an air of victory (though what victories, except perhaps knocking a ball through a goal, have...
...Lent and deny earthly pleasure as it is an opportunity to realize romantic ambitions. It is the one time when a person is permitted to work out his sex problems in his own fashion. He finds a new love, or dances with a woman he has loved from afar. There's even a word for it: namoro de carnaval, or carnival affair. A frustrated husband can finally go out and dance with young girls. Young bachelors can find girls to fall in love with. There are so many amorous dynamics tied up in carnaval love that the murder rate...