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...cold to study, too cold to sleep; and since there's no other place to study after midnight, it affects our performance in school," Lisa M. Alvarez '84, a Weld resident, said yesterday. She added that many students living in the dormitory had colds and one student had contracted strep throat...
...left conferred in the Jesuit San Jose high school on a busy street in San Salvador, rightists burst in, brazenly seized them, dragged them off and executed them. Hours later, their bullet-ridden bodies were found outside the city. The most prominent among them: millionaire Rancher Enrique Alvarez Cordova, a rightist turned leftist who headed the Democratic Revolutionary Front (FDR), a coalition of 48 leftist groups...
Another, Luis W. Alvarez, emeritus professor of physics at Berkeley and a Nobel laureate, said the Post story "seems to me to be backwards." He refused further comment...
...addition to Alvarez, Wolfgang K.H. Panofsky, a physicist at the Standford Linear Accelerator Center in California, and two other scientists are on the committee...
...Alvarez and his team from the University of California at Berkeley were sampling the strata because they provide a rare, undisturbed record of reversals in the earth's magnetic field. Such fluctuations can influence climate, and possibly allow more cosmic radiation to assail the earth's atmosphere. One layer, only a centimeter thick and tracing back 65 million years, showed a sharp excess of iridium, an element 1,000 times more plentiful in otherworldly matter than in the earth's crust. The "spike" in the readings made a sobering point. "It's the first experimental evidence...