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Neighborhood groups will work with the city to convert the Sacramento St. site into a full-fledged playground, the only sizeable chunk of open land left in their neighborhood. Harvard is a major cause of the heavy land development in areas surrounding its campus, both because of its own land needs and those of the myriad institutions it attracts...
...real estate officials had received "flickers" of interest over the site from two companies, one in California and the other in the Boston area. He added, however, that "there aren't many Polaroids," and that the land will probably have to be sold in pieces instead of one large chunk as envisioned for the Polaroid deal...
...atmosphere. It would have exploded before impact, scattering particles over a wide region. The explosion would have produced a fireball and intense shock waves that battered everything on the ground below. Where did the meteorite originate? Slovak Astronomer Lubar Krésak has suggested that it was a chunk of Comet Encke, a periodic visitor to the earth's vicinity that is also the probable source of an annual meteor shower in late June-the time of the Tunguska event...
...idea of National Service had been simmering in Washington for some time when the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan prompted the new interest in reviving the draft. The combination of the two creates a disquieting alliance between a chunk of the liberal establishment, who want so badly to feel good about America again, and right-wing hawks, who ache to show some old-fashioned American muscle at some corner of the globe. Drafting young people will satisfy both...
...most effective, quick step that the U.S. could take to pop the bubble would be to auction off a chunk of its 180-million-oz. silver stockpile, the only substantial official reserve of the metal left in the world. An auction would help cool down the markets for all precious metals, including gold. Some lower Treasury officials last week discussed how to stem the gold and silver stampede, but decided to hold back when rumors of a gold auction alone were enough to cahn the markets. Said one Treasury official to TIME Washington Economic Correspondent William Blaylock at week...