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...shirt: traditional bet on the outcome of intercollegiate crew races. The members of each winning boat collect the shirts of their opponents. At the sprints, the winning crew will pick up 14 shirts after the final race...
...Alvarez hypothesis by detecting trace amounts of rare noble gases, like neon and xenon, in the layer of Cretaceous clay deposited during roughly the same period that the dinosaurs became extinct. They were seeking to identify the nature of the object responsible for the impact. Because noble gases collect in carbon particles, the scientists isolated the carbon in Cretaceous sediment taken from Denmark, Spain and New Zealand. To their surprise, all three samples contained carbon that had been deposited at a rate 10,000 times as great as carbon in the layers immediately above and below them. It was bunched...
...giant excavation 35 ft. deep covers two acres. A floor of compacted clay approximately 40 ft. thick has been laid below the bottom of the hole. On top of this virtually impermeable bed, workmen are placing a plastic liner to be topped by a plastic-grid system that will collect and direct any seepage into a series of sump pumps. Above the grid will be another plastic liner, another layer of clay and yet more plastic. A plumbing system will pump rainwater out of the area. Nearby, the company is spending $1.6 million to improve its large surface collection tanks...
Students, however, are being aided in the new effort by Facilities Maintaince through the provision of plastic wastebaskets and garbage bags. Each suite has also been equipped with a wire basket to collect flyers, newspapers and other materials...
...bankruptcy this month, becoming the first sitting Governor in his state to do so. His trouble stems from the 18,500-acre Yellowstone Ranch near Lander, Wyo., which Herschler and three partners bought in 1977 for an estimated $4.5 million to $5 million. After the partners were unable to collect a $1.5 million payment for 3,000 head of cattle they sold in 1981, they were forced to borrow at high interest rates to make debt payments. Meanwhile, beef prices and land values were declining. Yellowstone was sold in a bank foreclosure last April for $1.9 million. Said Herschler last...