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...next to impossible to discern whether or not a school had a liberal, activist community and a vibrant queer social scene, Sulmers said...

Author: By Ariel R. Frank, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: College Counseling Service Helps Gays | 10/9/1997 | See Source »

...that Vonnegut's voice has ever been very difficult to discern in any of his books. His own unapologetically leftwing, anti-technology standpoint is abundantly clear in each one of his savagely ironic novels. In Timequake, though, he gives it full throttle, often ranting about modern America for chapters on end without returning to the world of Kilgore Trout, his fictitious "other self...

Author: By Scott E. Brown, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Kilgore Was Here | 10/3/1997 | See Source »

However, it is virtually "impossible" to discern the details of Mir's structure with the naked eye, says Alan M. MacRobert, associate editor of Sky & Telescope magazine...

Author: By Nicholas A. Nash, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Mir and Atlantis May Be Visible From Charles on Friday | 9/30/1997 | See Source »

...life" part, well, I figured that it would be sort of like a high school summer program, the kind of thing where I could go home after a few months and say that the people were "amazing." What made people "amazing," as far as I could discern, was that they were really, really smart...

Author: By Dara Horn, | Title: Rating Rudenstine's Words, Year by Year | 9/26/1997 | See Source »

MORE THAN A MAMMOGRAM With a new imaging test called Miraluma, doctors can get a clear view of breast tissue that's otherwise hard to discern on a mammogram...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Jun. 16, 1997 | 6/16/1997 | See Source »

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