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While Harvard may have one less bullet in the holster on offense this weekend, the Crimson defense will have to contend with some of the ECAC's most potent firepower...
...light, but the collector had to be ingenious. Although the probe will loop two times around the sun to help it match orbits with the comet, Stardust and Wild 2 will still shoot past each other at nearly 4 miles per second, 10 times as fast as a speeding bullet. In order to catch dust particles without disintegrating them, Jet Propulsion Lab engineer Peter Tsou first thought of making a trap out of Styrofoam; he figured dust would bury itself harmlessly inside. Unfortunately, says Tsou, "cosmic dust particles are so small that on Styrofoam, I wouldn't be able...
Jamal was found at the scene, wounded, his pistol lying nearby. Three eyewitnesses in the immediate vicinity gave nearly identical statements to the arresting officers describing how Jamal had run from across the street, shot Faulkner in the back and then executed him. Ballistic tests proved that the bullet which killed Faulkner was fired by a .38 caliber revolver, a match with Jamal's gun. Finally, three people at the hospital where Jamal was taken that night, two security guards and a police officer, testified that Jamal had confessed to the shooting, stating "I shot the motherfucker and I hope...
...scion of a noble Arab family that traced its roots back to the prophet Muhammad, Hussein ascended to the Hashemite throne in 1952 at the tender age of 16 -- having already survived one assassin's bullet, which deflected off a medal he'd been wearing on his chest...
...west of Mexico City, 50 miles away, in a prison called Southside, a tightly wound, closely shorn 34-year-old ex-cowboy named Daniel Aguilar Trevino described a Mexican political system that is still dark, unforgiving and sinister. Aguilar is serving a 50-year term for pumping the fatal bullet into Ruiz Massieu's neck from point-blank range. In recent weeks, for the first time, Aguilar described to TIME how, working through intermediaries, Raul Salinas arranged for the killing of Ruiz Massieu, a political leader his associates called a "data bank" on Raul's corruption. The story is colorful...