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...distant stars. Even the big Palomar mirror could not have found it without a highly sensitive silicon-chip light detector called a charge-coupled device (CCD), used in place of a photographic plate. When the comet approaches for its hairpin swing around the sun in 1986, solar radiation will boil off volatile material, creating a glowing head and characteristic tail and perhaps another heavenly spectacle...
There are as many descriptions of the first of these divergences as members of the two departments, but they boil down to a pair of truisms: Harvard economists tend to devote more time to research than teaching, while the reverse is true at MIT: and Harvard professors tend to work on their own, while MIT's department has a stronger central administration and sense of community...
...some things however, it seems that the sexes will never be equal. Take the men's an roast and infamous pig roast--the women went for a lobster boil instead...
...Eagles momentum began to boil over at 43:05 when they converted on a long throw in into Harvard penalty box a play they had been rehearsing for most of the match Fullback Mike Byrne hoisted a loss from the left touchline that Crimson goalkeeper Phil Coogan let slip out of his grasp Forward Jon Farrow was in the proverbial tight place and nodded home a goal that rousted his team mates out of hibernation...
Simmering for more than a year, the scandal came to a boil last June 18, when the body of a man was found hanging from London's Blackfriars Bridge, his toes just touching the surface of the muddy Thames. The dead man's pockets contained some $13,000 in various currencies, as well as 12 lbs. of bricks and stones. He was identified as Roberto Calvi, 62, the president of Banco Ambrosiano of Milan, the largest private banking group in Italy, with operations in 15 countries. Authorities in Italy, in the Vatican and throughout the international banking community...