Word: blobs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...astronomers working at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) on Mauna Kea in Hawaii turned their attention toward Eugenia one evening last fall, however, they spotted something curious. Off on the upper-left corner of the fuzzy-looking image was another smear of light they couldn't identify. "These blobs are often artifacts of the optics," says astronomer William Merline, head of the team, "but this blob hung around. Once we saw it was moving in a pattern consistent with an orbit, we knew it was a satellite...
...have seen columnists, student groups leaders and individual students define Harvard primarily as an institution, responsible--for better or (usually) worse--for all aspects of students' lives. Students who seek to change this usually unbending institution quickly learn that the Harvard that affects undergraduates is not one amorphous blob, but three interrelated but highly independent bodies of University, Faculty and College. Under this conception of Harvard, every question has an external answer, every problem has a responsible administrator. Harvard employees need a living wage? Lobby President Neil L. Rudenstine. Like your improved financial aid package? Thank Dean of the Faculty...
...know that to be a competent and modern woman, I need to resent gentlemanly behavior as merely another attempt to turn me into a useless blob; I should think of all women as goddesses and all men as devils via penis. But I can t. I appreciate it when a man lifts my carry-on up into the overhead bin, and I refuse to blame men for every fault in the world...
...good), the Pops, Canobie Lake Park and the beach, 14-year-olds in tow. The whole experience left me wondering how much simpler and perhaps equally productive it would be if undergraduates, instead of producing endless papers, performances and projects, all got together and played a good game of blob-tag for half an hour...
CAPE CANAVERAL: International Space Station? More like "The Blob." Just as President Clinton was hailing the "football field"-sized station in his tribute to Colonel Eileen Collins Thursday, NASA was making yet another announcement that the project would cost more -- and take even longer -- to complete than previously thought...