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...heavyweight crew surged past the East's top crew, Princeton, in the Compton Cup. The exciting victory was the highlight of a heavy weekend of action on the water...
...least El Nino is a welcome change of pace [SCIENCE, Feb. 16] from Washington mudslinging, snow jobs, storms of controversy, floods of salacious rumors and the avalanche of media overkill. BONNIE COMPTON HANSON Santa Ana, Calif...
...proposal to develop voluntary fourth-grade reading and eighth-grade math tests by 1999 has enjoyed public support since its unveiling last February. Education experts agree that American public schools badly need tougher--and higher--national standards. National testing would enable parents and schools from Cambridge, Mass., to Compton, Calif., to measure an individual student's performance against a common yardstick. A well-executed national testing system might also ease the transition to charter schooling and public-school choice by providing a standard method of assessing different schools' strengths. In a TIME/CNN poll last week, a majority of adults surveyed...
...program, with DiCaprio as host, Blaine traipses across the country, performing his repertoire for a broad sampling of America's melting pot: old Chinese men in San Francisco; gangbangers in Compton, Calif.; Valley Girls, Wall Streeters, the Dallas Cowboys. "The secret, hidden message," he says, "is that all people are the same...
Astrophysicist William Purcell knew that if he looked at the center of the Milky Way, he would see what is known as antimatter: bizarre subatomic particles that resemble ordinary protons and electrons but carry an opposite charge. But when NASA controllers trained the orbiting Compton Gamma Ray Observatory on this core region and beamed the data back, Purcell saw something on his computer screen at Northwestern University that nobody could have predicted: a veritable colossus of antimatter, a vast fountain spewing out from the center of our galaxy and reaching trillions of miles into space...