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...Pioneer lacked a sharp eye, it made up for that deficiency with its other sensors. Last week, as scientists at NASA'S Ames Research Center near San Francisco skimmed data transmitted during the spacecraft's flyby of Saturn, they made an exciting discovery. While Pioneer was close to Saturn's rings, a detector recording a bombardment by charged particles fell practically silent for twelve seconds, then began registering particles again. Analysis indicated that Pioneer had been briefly shielded from the rain of particles as it flew under a massive object...
Finally, the Pioneer scientists shamefacedly confessed that they had found in their recordings some Titan temperature data that were partially garbled - not because of satellite signals but because of interference from solar storms and communications problems between a tracking antenna in Spam and the Ames control center. Still, enough information was retrieved to confirm that the temperature at Titan's cloud tops was a frigid -200° C (-328° F). That seemed to rule out surface temperatures warm enough to allow the formation of amino acids, the building blocks of life. But scientists were withholding final judgment until...
...looked like the Roaring Seventies in downtown Chicago: squealing tires, wailing police sirens, a battered sedan careening through crowds to wham, bang, crash its way through a shattering plate-glass window of the city's Richard J. Daley civic center. Then cried a voice: "That's a take!" Saturday Night Live Stars Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi, for whom the car was crashed by stuntmen, are filming The Blues Brothers, a story about two off-key crooners out to save the mortgage on the orphanage in which they grew up. The movie calls for SWAT teams, National Guardsmen...
Runcie is the 102nd in the long line of prelates. The Archbishop of Canterbury is by no means an Anglican equivalent of the Pope. But because he presides over the historic center of Anglicanism, his attitudes and actions have influence around the world...
More than 300 people attended services yesterday dedicating the new location of Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel at the Riesman Center at 74 Mt. Auburn...