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...first inkling that pulsars might not be reliable timepieces came after Cornell University astronomers at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, trained their 1,000-ft. radio telescope on a newly discovered pulsar in the Crab Nebula, the glowing remnant of a supernova-or stellar explosion-that was seen from earth in A.D. 1054. Unlike most other pulsars, which have relatively low repetition rates (between one and four per second), the new find was ticking about 30 times per second. Carefully measuring the pulse rate in October and then again in November, the astronomers found that it was slowing down by about...
...rally in Trenton was at the Civic Center, a dirty red brick building from around 1890 that now stands in front of a great expanse of bull-dozed wasteland covered with crab-grass and bits of broken pavement. The auditorium had about 3000 people in it when Wallace arrived, and the seats were arranged in a square with no one in the middle and no one behind the speaker's platform. This arrangement is designed to cut down on the risk of assassination, and also to reduce the contact between Wallace's supporters and the hecklers, who had turned...
Once the bane of streetwalkers and their patrons, Phthirus pubis, or the crab louse, is exhibiting upward mobility. As sexual barriers tumble, the tenacious parasites are infesting more and more middle-class youngsters. One reason, says Boston Dermatologist A. Bernard Ackerman in the New England Journal of Medicine, is that the bugs are making the scene at hippie love-ins. And it is only a short hop from the crash pad to the college crowd...
...Harvard almost didn't make it to the varsity finals in the afternoon. In the morning qualifying heat, Fred Fisher, number four man in the Crimson shell, jumped his slide on the second stroke of the race, and then caught a crab. Coxswain Brian Sullivan stopped the boat, expecting the referee to start the race over. He didn't and Harvard finished last...
...dispute developed. In catching the crab, the number four rigger was bent, and Harvard claimed that under racing rules, its equipment had been broken, and thus the race should have been stopped...