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Call it an unexpected bonus from the cold war. During top-secret monitoring of the dark side of the moon 25 years ago, U.S. scientists discovered what they feared might be clandestine Soviet nuclear tests in space. Spy satellites picked up massive bursts of gamma rays similar to those released during the explosion of atom bombs. But these bursters, as gamma-ray scientists began to call them, did not match any known pattern. They were brief, lasting from only a fraction of a second up to 100 seconds. Civilian experts were called in to study the data, and the Soviet...
...live in the tower (as most seniors and some juniors do), you'll actually have a single bedroom the size of most people's common rooms, with the catch that, well, you won't have a common room yourself. In the tower you'll also have the bonus of an unobstructed view of Peabody Terrace (with Boston in the background...
Those students who choose to play this somewhat chaotic sport get a bonus--they play both a fall and a spring season. And for the Harvard women's rugby team, the spring is looking mighty promising...
Those arriving early at the Garden for the Harvard-Clarkson ECAC men's hockey semifinal tonight will find a bonus for their $12 admission...
...that is not incentive enough, early detection through mammography can sometimes bring another bonus: surgery that spares the breast. A small, early tumor can often be removed with a lumpectomy procedure rather than a mastectomy...