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...faculty member says that while many of Harvard's schools have done significant belt-tightening to reduce their deficits, the central administration has not made corresponding spending reductions...
...street." Thus what the cops call "beer and piss patrol" became a tactic for apprehending more serious criminals. "Your open beer lets me check your ID," says Maple. "Now I can radio the precinct for outstanding warrants or parole violations. Maybe I bump against that bulge in your belt; with probable cause, I can frisk you." Civil libertarians have been screaming, but shootings, gun murders and other signs of firearms use are down--proof, Bratton says, that thugs are leaving the guns at home...
...chance for us to show that we're capable of finishing off the game," senior guard Army Reinhard said. "Arizona's a good team--I mean, they're 8-0. I think it's definitely a good chance for us to get a good win under our belt before we start the Ivy [season...
...will shoot pictures and, with remote sensing instruments, analyze the chemical composition of the moons. In the course of its many orbits, Galileo will also investigate Jupiter's fourth major moon, the volcanically active Io, but only at a safe distance; the moon lies within an intense radiation belt that could endanger the spacecraft's electronics systems...
...longer journey, the spacecraft made good use of its time. It shot pictures, calibrated its instruments, conducted scientific observations of Venus and Earth during its flybys and, among other achievements, confirmed the existence of a huge impact crater on the backside of the moon. Passing twice through the asteroid belt, it snapped the first closeup images of the asteroid Gaspra and discovered the first asteroidal moon, a tiny clump (later named Dactyl) orbiting the asteroid Ida. Then in July 1994 it shot pictures of the fragments of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 plunging into Jupiter, capturing images of the far-side...