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Trevor Yankoff, Brown QB (Jr., 6-1, 185) San Juan Capistrano, Calif.-- Accounted for four touchdowns in 43-29 upset of Harvard...
...nuclear missile could then be launched to rendezvous with the intruder, explode nearby and nudge it into a safe path. NASA, which spends under $1 million a year watching for collisions, will be a sponsor of the first International Conference on Near-Earth Asteroids next week in San Juan Capistrano, Calif., and is planning a seminar this year on asteroid avoidance. Still, the threat of a sneak attack remains. In 1989 a 250-m-wide (820 ft.) asteroid was discovered only after it had missed the earth by an astronomical eyelash -- less than 804,500 km (500,000 miles...
Like Muslims in their annual pilgrimage to Mecca, or the swallows returning to Capistrano, the hippies migrated from their usual Harvard Square haunt to the Cambridge Common last Saturday for what was billed as "a happening, a gathering, an awakening...
...outside world has tended to notice Hinckley Township, Ohio, only during the annual celebration of Buzzard Day on March 15, when the homely scavengers flap back to town just as swallows home in on Capistrano. But this summer the northeast Ohio community of 5,000 has a more urgent claim on public curiosity: the case of the missing police chief...
...Tabori &Chang; 351 pages; $14.95 May is the best month for observing the grizzly bear, from a proper distance, of course. March is the best time to study the turkey vulture, especially in the tiny hamlet of Hinckley, Ohio, to which, like the swallows that regularly come back to Capistrano, the scavenging birds return every year. February, however, is not the ideal time to look for groundhogs. The woodchuck does awaken from his winter torpor earlier than most other ground animals but rarely as early as Feb. 2-unless roused from its den by meteorologists...