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When Timothy Spahr finally knocked off work on Jan. 13, after more than 10 hours on the job, he figured he was at last done for the night. Spahr's task as an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, in Cambridge, Mass., is to collect reports of asteroids that might one day pass near Earth. On that Tuesday, he had been processing observations from an automated telescope in New Mexico when he noticed a pinpoint of light that might fit the profile. He calculated the object's orbit and, as usual, posted the information on the Minor Planet...
...guilt is one reason he gave her the name "Ka," after the good angel of ancient Egyptian mythology. It's also why he gets her to read The Book of the Dead with him. A dew breaker, we will learn, is a torturer who goes out before dawn to collect his victims...
...independent, Nader has to gather signatures in each state to get his name on the ballot—upwards of 1.5 million in total. Texas, the first deadline, requires Nader’s volunteers—he will not hire help—to collect 64,000 signatures by May 13, an enterprise that Texas Democrats will undoubtedly hinder...
...month-old 24-hour shuttle service has been extended through March in order for the administration to collect more data about student use, according to College officials...
...when the killing of five Japanese fishermen and three whites at Caledon Bay in Arnhem Land prompted plans for a punitive police expedition, he lobbied the Federal Government to send him as peace broker. Despite officials' fears that he'd be killed - and a request, which he refused, to collect skulls while there - Thomson set off in 1935 to calm tensions and, he hoped, document for policymakers the needs and culture of a people about whom almost nothing was known: "I was to show them that a European was prepared to trust them...