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Likewise, Darst preferred to work for The Advocate rather than--as the Fay House administrator asked her--resurrect a similar defunct Radcliffe publication. A member of the second Advocate editorial board that included women, Kneerim says, "We felt like pioneers...
...Shoemakers chart the asteroids' travels, astronomers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., hunt for another elusive creature of the night: the legendary tenth planet, or Planet X. They comb through the tangled statistics and images transmitted in 1983 from the now defunct orbiting Infrared Astronomical Satellite (I.R.A.S.), struggling to find a single pinpoint source of radiation that over a six-month period has shifted in a particular pattern among the fixed stars, as only a nearby planet can do. Says Daniel Whitmire, a University of Southwestern Louisiana astrophysicist who is involved in the search: "There...
Created in February 1984, when the three-year-old ARTS network (a co-venture of ABC and the Hearst Corp.) acquired the programming of the defunct Entertainment Channel, A&E is in the midst of a major push for viewers and visibility. During the first three months of this year, the network is introducing 45 new programs or series and has launched a multimillion-dollar national advertising campaign to promote them. More than 12 million cable homes now receive some or all of A&E's 20-hour-a-day schedule, usually as part of their basic cable service. Though...
Unfortunately, in an age when most Harvard undergraduates were upper-class white Northeasterners who joined clubs for food and lodging. The Varsity Club couldn't offer either. Interest in membership rapidly declined, and the club went defunct within a few years...
...Kubacki, freshman football coach and an advisor for VFY said that although the Harvard program was instituted in 1975, it dwindled in popularity over the years until it was virtually defunct by last year...