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...grow out of sports. "There are others who were born with the wisdom to know that nothing lasts. These are the truly tough among us, the ones who can live without illusion, or without even the hope of illusion. I am not that grown up or up to date. I am a simpler creature, tied to more primitive patterns and cycles. I need to think something lasts forever, and it might as well be that state of being that is a game; it might as well be that, in a green field...
...Others. In the current recrystallization, Americans are asserting their past, their myths, their freedoms. They think of immigrants and New York Harbor and Ellis Island. But they fetch back, too, to a paler, sweeter image --in Robert Lowell's verse, "Main Street's shingled mansards and square white frames/ date from Warren G. Harding back to Adams./ old life! America's ghostly innocence...
...seal. NASA did ask its booster contractor, Morton Thiokol, to seek a solution. Thiokol set up a seal task force at its plant in Utah. This work received more attention after a shuttle was launched on Jan. 24, 1985, following the coldest overnight cape temperature of any flight to date: in the 20s. This launch produced the most extensive ring damage. Morton Thiokol concluded in a postflight summary that "low temperature enhanced probability" of seal erosion. After testing the resiliency of the rings at various temperatures, the company told NASA on Aug. 9, 1985, that the rings did not even...
Since 1973, Shoemaker has been photographing the sky in search of asteroids that periodically cross the earth's orbit and thus pose the danger of a collision. To date, he says, 57 such asteroids at least 1 km (.62 mile) in diameter have been cataloged. In addition, about three earth-crossing comets are detected each year. From the rate at which new earth crossers are discovered, Shoemaker estimates that there are some 2,000 asteroids in this category and that 100 comets intersect the earth's orbit every year...
...case, at the close of 1936's three-day event, President Conant proposed, and the gathering unanimously approved, a motion adjourning the celebration until "the eighteenth of September, 2036." But 50 years short of that date, Harvard is preparing to strike up the band and celebrate, in Burr's words, "350 years of education in America and Harvard's role...