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...Pathfinder's long journey to the red planet must begin, like any other, with a single step. For NASA scientists, that first step was delayed again early Tuesday morning as Pathfinder's scheduled launch was scrubbed again for the second time in as many days. The weather, Monday's culprit, was near-perfect; this time a computer on the ground was to blame, failing with just over a minute remaining in the countdown. A backup computer also would not work, leading officials to suspect a software problem. NASA scientists say they must launch the $196M Pathfinder in December in order...
Like 500,000 other Americans each year, Lee was suffering a stroke. Something had cut off the flow of oxygen and nutrient-rich blood to a portion of her brain. Sometimes the culprit is a leaky artery. But in Phillips' case, as in 80% of strokes, the problem, revealed by a CAT scan, was a clot that was plugging up one of the blood vessels in her head. Unless the clot was dislodged, part of her brain would die, leaving her at least partly paralyzed...
...however, it has become clear that not all cases of exhaustion can be cured with rest. With CFS, fatigue continues for months or years, along with flulike symptoms of joint pain, headaches and muddled thinking. The cause of CFS still eludes doctors, but studies show that sometimes the culprit may be low blood pressure. In such cases, when CFS patients are given medications to stabilize their blood pressure, their symptoms subside...
Even in the normally quiet days of summer, controversy erupted between our irascible Dean of the College, Harry R. Lewis '68, and the student body. And, unsurprisingly, the culprit was once again Dean Lewis and the heavy-handed and utterly insensitive manner in which he deals with his students...
Whoever the culprit, officials said, he was no mad-genius Unabomber type. Only one of the three pipe bombs in the duct-tape-clad package actually detonated. Match this criminal klutziness with a Southern accent and down-home demeanor, and the composite portrait was enough to inspire a spasm of dark humor. "The Una-doofus," joked Jay Leno. "Unabubba," a federal agent said...