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...beside another technological trick that will ultimately boost telescopes' power even more. Called interferometry, it achieves the precise focus of a truly huge telescope without actually having the thing built. Instead, light is combined from widely separated telescopes--the two Kecks, say, whose observatory building was designed with a basement-level chamber for that purpose, or two or more of the four VLT telescopes in Chile. The system is dauntingly tricky and complex, but its astonishing precision will let astronomers tease out the details of galactic structures and distant solar systems as never before...
With rumors of Manny Ramirez and Mike Mussina wearing pinstripes in the spring, it does not look likely that New York will finish in the basement of the AL East...
Lisa M. Card '01 said she and 20 other students were in the band room, in the basement of 74 Mt. Auburn St., when the power went off and the fire alarm sounded. Card said she left the building to see black smoke pouring from the manhole just outside...
...privacy" and how looking at porn is "natural," and then we retreat to our private paradises where everything is normal, where no desire is questioned, no fetish forbidden. We go into the darkness, and the question that we should ask ourselves, as pornography takes up permanent residence in the basement of American life, is whether the darkness goes into...
...when we arrive at Harvard. I can understand now that this is totally normal. Despite my struggles, I made it through first semester. More important, it actually did get easier. Struggling in those first few weeks made me wonder if I would be better off locked up in the basement of Cabot Library. There were times I really tried. Work is important and some of it actually gets done at Cabot. But Cabot couldn't give me the best memories I had of my first year, the people I met and the times we had together...