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About 150,000 people joined Saturday in one of the biggest protests in Communist China's 40-year history, holding a 15-hour rally at Beijing's Tiananmen Square. Authorities allowed the protest to unfold, but students alleged yesterday that police beat several and injured one seriously...
Harvard came back in the bottom of the third with one of its biggest offensive displays of the season. Prior again got things going by drawing a lead-off walk. Reilly followed with a bunt which produced another throwing error. Wambach tied the game with a hard single. Crowley then walked to load the bases...
...called source codes, which coordinate its electronic features. The doubters were joined by Secretary of Commerce Robert Mosbacher, who says he wanted to ensure that "this aviation technology, which has taken so many years of blood, sweat, tears and money to develop, did not instantly allow our biggest competitor to catch right up." After hearing the objections, Bush decided to reopen the agreement and press Japan for safeguards, including a clearer understanding of what the U.S. would gain from the project and the technological secrets it could withhold from the Japanese...
...biggest boom of all began in 1968, when enormous quantities of oil were discovered at Prudhoe Bay. In 1969 the state held an auction for oil-drilling leases and suddenly found itself $900 million richer. Almost overnight, tens of thousands of Americans followed the advice in the chorus of the Johnny Horton pop tune, "North to Alaska! Go north -- the rush is on!" The state began to fill with drilling crews, geologists and oil-company executives. The barren North Slope, where only a few Inupiat, or Eskimos, had lived, now bristled with hard-hatted workers who were hardy enough...
...they had released their results in a manner that tended to cast suspicion on their claims, staging a press conference in Utah complete with television cameras. For several days researchers around the world were dependent on TV and newspapers for scraps of information about what could conceivably be the biggest science story of the year -- if not the decade...