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...days bore and frighten me at the same time. I say they bore because they are full of routines, and because I simply have not come to terms with the whole idea of being at Harvard University, school of the free and home of the brave. I say they frighten because I look around me and see that I am sitting still in a very fast-paced world. While I contemplate my problems or my inadequacies, I am letting unique opportunities go unexplored...
...thing scientists expected to find there was ice. But that is just what a new radar study of Mercury, reported in Science, has detected. Planetary scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab and at Caltech aimed powerful radar beams at both of the planet's poles; the return signals bore the telltale signs of having bounced off a frozen surface. Like Earth and Mars, Mercury appears to have polar ice caps...
...better part of a decade and led to three triumphs in the Super Bowl. As a result, Walsh first had the cloak of greatness draped around his shoulders. Then, as the championships accumulated, the purveyors of hyperbole whisked it away and replaced it with the heavier mantle that bore the title "genius." The fact that Walsh on occasion used words such as "sublime" to describe the play of his team certainly set him apart from those in the pro-football fraternity, whose grammatical constructions often drift toward the martial, monosyllabic and scatological. No less a personage than former Secretary...
...mistreated corpse, clothed from the waist down when discovered, was now stark naked except for remnants of a boot dangling from his right foot, and bore the marks of his crude recovery. He had also been castrated; it turned out that his penis and most of his scrotum were missing, perhaps accidentally broken off during his recovery and taken by a visitor. Flown out by helicopter and transferred to a hearse, the Iceman and his possessions were transported to Innsbruck. There, one final indignity awaited the body. It became the centerpiece of a press conference in the local morgue. While...
BASEBALL NEEDED A LIFT. THE SEASON HAD BEEN ONE long raspy bore, both on the field (with its dearth of thrilling pennant races) and off (with the resignation of contentious commissioner Fay Vincent). But many middling fans think of baseball as the October game. All might be redeemed if the league- championship series could provide an emotional home...