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...change dramatically. By the end of next week, Hale-Bopp's path across the sky will take the comet right into prime time. By April 1 or so, when it makes its closest approach to Earth, the comet will be high in the evening skies over the northern hemisphere, brighter than ever and showing a short but prominent tail. And there it will sit, not for a measly week like Hyakutake, but for more than a month. "I predict that this could be the most viewed comet in all of human history," says Daniel Green, an astronomer at the Harvard...
That should reassure worriers, but it's too bad for sky watchers. Hale-Bopp will be brighter than Hyakutake was, but it's also 15 times as far away. "If Hale-Bopp came as close as Hyakutake did," says Harvard's Green, wistfully, "it would be incredible. You'd even be able to see it easily in the daytime." Along with the rest of us, he's going to have to settle for what will merely be the best celestial show in decades...
...confidence showed no brighter than it did in the third period, when Harvard was twice forced to kill five on three penalties. Even with two extra players, the Big Green could not muster a rally. Harvard's defense was simply too stifling...
...proposed, and that PBHA had wisely joined, is not volunteerism in the manner of most PBHA programs, in that students will be paid to tutor. But the staff must not mire itself in semantics when we have the opportunity to teach young Bostonians to read and thereby face a brighter future...
...work seven days a week. Jon was very much a presence, "this screaming madman running around the office, shouting obscenities about everyone and everything," recalls former employee Travis. Robin, who had run the magazine and maintained a valuable library of atheist books, was much quieter and reputedly much brighter, but capable of answering back in kind. During working hours, says American Atheists officer and longtime Murray-O'Hair friend Arnold Via, "they didn't bother one another unless they wanted to get into another's throats," in which case, screaming fights ensued. Inevitably, however, they ate lunch together, dined together...