Word: aquila
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...achievement of Taylor and his colleagues, Peter M. McCulloch and Lee A. Fowler, was a triumph of radio astronomy. In 1974, while scanning the heavens with the giant bowl-shaped radio telescope near Arecibo, Puerto Rico, the researchers detected rhythmic radio signals from the constellation Aquila. The bursts were coming from a pulsar, or rapidly rotating neutron star-the incredibly compressed cadaver of a giant star whose nuclear fires have died out. Some 15,000 light-years away, it apparently was in orbit around a second compact object, perhaps another neutron star or even a black hole, whose gravity...
...Italian at Perugia, and counseling services. Although offered the opportunity to withdraw from the program, all 105 decided to see it through. Says Marty Bergman. 22. an Oberlin graduate who was turned down by 23 U.S. medical schools but has been accepted by the University of L'Aquila: "We believe-we don't know yet-that we're considered to be an exchange group and that the new order does not include exchange students." Adds Mary di Giogia, 21, who just graduated from St. Peter's College in Jersey City, N.J.: "I think the directive...