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...fact, the narrow definition of the ACSR's role and President Bok's reluctance to meet with concerned students on investment issues after the ACSR's inception confirm original student suspicions: The committee was intended chiefly as a means of defusing protest without effectively bringing outside input to bear on Harvard's investment rationale. The ACSR's abstention on a proxy resolution concerning Exxon's proposed role in Angola especially demonstrated its ineffectiveness for thoroughly considering the moral and political questions surrounding socially responsible investment...
Barely more than a minute after the orbiting laboratory was launched two weeks ago, ground controllers knew that Skylab was in trouble. Telemetered signals indicated that the meteoroid-and-heat-shield protecting the workshop and living quarters of the craft had been ripped away. The telemetry also seemed to confirm that one of the workshop's twin electricity-producing solar panels had sheared off, and the other had been jammed by debris from the shield...
...Conrad was able to confirm what the telemetry had suggested. But after surveying the jammed solar panel and the remnants of the meteoroid shield, the skipper was reassured. "I think we can take care of it," he told relieved flight controllers in Houston. Several hours later, it appeared that NASA'S ingenious salvage operation-and indeed the entire $2.5 billion Skylab mission-might end in failure...
...details of the planned wedding-a quiet family ceremony in the vicinity of New York City-were kept a closely guarded secret. No one could confirm whether, in order to marry, either or both had sought release from their religious communities-hers the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary, his the Society of St. Joseph...
...find what, if anything, Vera, Valletta, Vheissu and Vogelsang have in common. And Oedipa Maas, in The Crying of Lot 49, drives up and down the Californian coast exploring the remains of an underground postal system that has survived silently for centuries. But Stencil, Maas and Slothrop can never confirm their conspiracies, and what is more, they cannot tell which is worse--a conspiracy or the possibility that there is no force at all behind the pattern, that it is an accident, a random ordering...