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...have ever dared to risk your life by walking in Harvard Square, you must have had at least 10 people bombard you, one right after the other, with petitions, bad street corner music or coupons to stores not within a 50-mile radius. This has all happened to me--all in one lucky day--while I ventured across Mass Ave. into the ever so busy, never-resting Harvard Square...
Republican Party elders say it is nonetheless time for Buchanan to do the ! right thing. They will bombard the TV commentator with calls to get out of the race this week no matter how he fares in the Michigan primary. But Buchanan is likely to ignore pleas for party loyalty, vowing to stay in until the California primary on June 2. From now on, however, it will be a race with a difference: instead of running against Bush, Buchanan will increasingly oppose rival conservatives who he feels hijacked the movement years ago. "At this point," says Burton Pines...
...Senators from neighboring farm states, Kerrey and Iowa's Tom Harkin had the most at stake in South Dakota. Because air time there is cheap, both were able to bombard South Dakotans with pro-agriculture messages. Kerrey attacked the two leading Democrats, Bill Clinton and Paul Tsongas, as insensitive to / farmers' problems. He gave Harkin a bye, partly because Kerrey hopes to inherit the Iowan's supporters if Harkin drops out. That may not take long: after Harkin placed second with 25%, he lacked funds to advertise anywhere. He had to back away from larger primaries and concentrate on this...
...information about the past can be gained by examining meteorites, Marvin says. Since cosmic rays continually bombard meteors in space, researchers can determine the age of meteors by using radioactive isotope dating techniques. This dating method allows scientists to infer what conditions prevailed when the sun and earth were formed, Marvin says...
Mass media is an important subject for academic study precisely because it is so pervasive. The average American child watches six hours of television a day. Advertising billboards bombard us on every street corner. Our entire political system revolves around the ability of candidates to influence the electorate through advertising and unpaid media coverage...