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...National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) January 13 outlawed personal recruiting by alumni or team "booster" associations. The rule changed designed to prevent major universities from illegally recruiting, effectively cripples Harvard's varsity athletic recruiting program, coaches and officials said...
...North American Aerospace Defense Command, whose cameras, radars and computers keep track of the more than 5,000 objects now in orbit, that Cosmos 1402 was not following this scenario. When it broke into three pieces on Dec. 28, all languished in the same orbit, perhaps because of a booster failure. With each swing around the earth, the nuclear reactor's orbit shrank a little more. Some U.S. officials speculate that the Soviets might be able to destroy the reactor with a remaining explosive charge, or even a burst from one of their killer satellites, a risky procedure that...
...Work Richard Estes turned up with an index to the "quality of life" in 107 nations. Top marks went to Denmark and Norway and booby prizes to Ethiopia and Chad (the U.S. ranked 41st, two notches above the U.S.S.R.). Surveys of this sort usually fuel chauvinistic arguments among civic booster types. But the question is: What do such studies have to do with the way people actually wind up in whatever homes they wind up with...
...double the number on previous missions, the spacecraft remained visible for more than 3 min. as it rose on its pillars of fire into a cloudless sky over Cape Canaveral, undeterred by 90-m.p.h. winds. On the last mission, in July, Columbia's big strap-on solid-fuel booster rockets sank into the sea. This time, after separating from their mother ship, they drifted gently to earth under their large parachutes and stayed afloat for later recovery. As the shuttle cruised 184 miles above the earth, President Reagan sent up his greetings. Commented Columbia's commander, Vance Brand...
Yale's A Bartlett Giamatti, by contrast, has never been a a joke. He's a pure and simple fan--an inveterate Red Sox (and Yale, of course) booster Upon announcement of his appointment in 1977, he joked All lever wanted to be president of was the American League...