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...brighter spots for the Crimson was the performance of freshman Rachel Lewis, who finished fourth overall and second for Harvard with a time of 18:30. Sophomore Jenny Schank came in third for the Crimson (eight overall, 18:58), and was followed by freshman Ellen Villa (ninth overall, 19:11) and sophomore Rose Schneider...
...University marching band, gliding in a moonwalk down the Champs Elysees. Nor could they dampen the soaring spirit evoked when American diva Jessye Norman, wrapped in the blue, white and red colors of the French flag, sang La Marseillaise. For a few fleeting days the City of Light shone brighter than usual. For a magical moonlit moment -- but only a moment -- it seemed possible that the divisions that have sundered France between revolutionaries and royalists, between left and right, between natives and immigrants, would melt in the bicentennial bonhomie...
...marked by a jump in the number of sunspots and flares, giant loops of incandescent gases, called prominences, proliferate, shooting tens of thousands of miles above the solar surface, sometimes hanging suspended for months. The solar corona, the halo around the sun visible during total eclipses, becomes fuller and brighter; great blobs of the corona, containing billions of tons of hot gas, occasionally burst free, shooting into space at speeds as high as 2 million m.p.h. And the earth's upper atmosphere, pummeled by solar particles, is laced by electrical currents of as much as a million amperes. These...
Junior Char Joslin, who had a hat-trick in the game, sported a brighter view...
...billion since 1975, is now largely self-sufficient owing to higher productivity. Because of such moves, says Walter Williams, chairman of Bethlehem Steel, "we'll never be able to go back to the good old days." Big Steel has finally realized that the less comfortable it is, the brighter its future will...