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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...earth's equatorial plane and cannot be seen by terrestrial telescopes-lie in a 7,000-km.-wide (4,400-mile) belt. Four of the flattened rings are about 10 km. (6 miles) across, while the outermost one is 100 km. (60 miles) wide. What the rings consist of is uncertain. Says Elliot: "One theory about Saturn's rings is that they are made out of snowballs, so one good guess about Uranus' rings would be that they are also some type...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rings Around Uranus | 4/11/1977 | See Source »

...life begin on the primordial earth? Scientists looking for clues within the living cell have been stymied by a catch-22. All living organisms are composed largely of proteins, which consist of strings of amino acids manufactured within cells in small granules called ribosomes. But ribosomes are themselves highly complex protein structures that obviously evolved long after protein first appeared. Then how, without the complex ribosome "factories," was primitive protein produced? Last week, in a report published in the journal Origin of Life, a team of molecular biologists suggested an answer. If the hypothesis is correct, says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A New View of Evolution | 4/4/1977 | See Source »

...reported any sexual assaults since March 19, Robert G. Mudge, Harvard police records coordinator, said yesterday. Sexual assaults include any assault with apparent sexual overtones and often consist only of light touching, Kahn said...

Author: By Payne L. Templeton, | Title: Crimes Show Common Is Still Unsafe | 3/31/1977 | See Source »

...charter, the CRR should consist of five tenured faculty members, two non-tenured faculty members, one senior tutor, two graduate students, and four undergraduates. Graduate students are still boycotting the committee...

Author: By William B. Trautman, | Title: CHUL Caucus Evaluates Proposal to Reform CRR | 3/29/1977 | See Source »

...help. Mexico's dependence on the United States is easily seen in the analysis of a Joint Economic Commission released last month. According to the Commission's report, 60 per cent of Mexico's exports go to the United States, and some 89 per cent of Mexico's imports consist of American products. Some 70 per cent of all trade and tourism depend on the United States; foreign companies, most of which have an American base, are the main exporters of Mexican products manufactured with foreign technology. In addition, Mexico pays close to $3 billion a year, including the private...

Author: By Federico Salas, | Title: Honeymoon With an Elephant | 3/22/1977 | See Source »

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