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ANIMAL HOUSE John Belushi's Bluto ruled; the series (did you even know there was one?) just blew...
...Lanka celebrated the one-year anniversary of its cease-fire agreement with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. On Mar. 18, formal talks will resume as the two sides continue to forge a federalist government. Not all is tranquil: on Feb. 7, three Tigers suspected of arms smuggling blew themselves up when international inspectors tried to board their boat. But chief government negotiator and Minister for Constitutional Affairs G.L. Peiris says that "the greatest achievement is the cessation of violence for a continuous period of one year." Given the state of peace today, it's hard to argue...
With standout Dartmouth defenseman Trevor Byrne pinching on the offensive end, Cavanagh and junior forward Tim Pettit began a two-on-two break against defenseman Brian Van Abel and forward Max Guimond. Pettit pushed hard, drawing his defender and leaving Cavanagh room to fire a hard shot that blew by Boucher and the net, slipping out the top left corner from the force of the shot after it had crossed the goal line...
With the foam and the bolts moving down the list of likely causes, a meteor hit moved up. Few people suggest that a cataclysmic collision simply blew the ship out of the sky--not so low in the atmosphere, anyway. But up in orbit, a bad ding by a rogue rock could have done enough damage to cause serious drag as the ship descended through the atmosphere, and Columbia indeed heeled sharply to the left before it disintegrated. Pits and gouges in the protective tiles are common during flight; ships routinely pick up close to 100 of them...
...double helix. Watson said that it was really a simple problem: ?If it were complicated, I wouldn?t have gotten it.? He refused to retract his somewhat churlish portrait of his rival, the British crystallographer Rosalind Franklin, in his gossipy book The Double Helix, saying that she blew her chances of cracking the puzzle by refusing to cooperate with her savvy King?s College co-worker Maurice Wilkins, who ultimately shared a Nobel with Watson and Crick. As for the pairing of their names, Watson said that he got the first position when they sent off their paper to Nature...