Word: allen
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...outer boundary of the solar system and even abetting the efforts of scientists pursuing SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. When Pioneer was launched in March 1972, its primary assignment, ordained by NASA, was to reach the environment of Jupiter. At the time, says physicist James Van Allen, the discoverer of Earth's radiation belt and a principal contributor to Pioneer's achievements, "this objective was regarded as a bold one." While unmanned U.S. and Soviet spacecraft had visited the inner planets, none had flown beyond Mars and braved the asteroid belt to reach Jupiter and the other outer planets...
...Wirth watched Pioneer's data, in the form of multicolored blocks of numbers flashing across a computer screen. To make the best use of the spacecraft's dwindling power, he has shut down all but three of its 11 scientific instruments, and by early next year only one--Van Allen's cosmic ray detector--will be able to function. Citing operational costs and the diminishing scientific return, NASA has ordered Wirth to halt all communications with Pioneer next year on March...
...guilt by association with Gingrich on Medicare, education, assault weapons and the environment. Riggs is slamming her as a liberal carpetbagger sent by the unions and the White House. One very controversial TV spot fielded by the Riggs campaign linked Alioto, an opponent of the death penalty, with Richard Allen Davis, the murderer of Polly Klaas and probably the most hated man in California...
...plans for the Harvard Coop suggest this will be the most beautiful and grand store in the Square, returning the Coop to the prominence it used to have," said Daniel C. Allen '97, a member of the Coop Board of Directors and The Crimson's business manager...
...look like a generic Barnes & Noble," Allen said...