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...meet wasn't nearly as close. Dartmouth won with 90 points. Brown finished a distant second with 58, while Harvard tallied...
...spacecraft needed to reach Mars, and what drove up the size of the spacecraft was all the fuel and other consumables it would need to carry with it on so long a trip. But while Mars is indeed remote--at its farthest it's 1,000 times as distant as the moon--it has a lot of things the moon doesn't, most notably an atmosphere. And that makes all the difference...
...brought home a fifth place finish in its final race with a time of 6:03.89, far ahead of a distant sixth place Penn team. Washington took the race in 5:56.1, but the Crimson men were in contention throughout the race...
Unfortunately, Harvard came up on the short end. Stephan F. Austin won with 151 points, while the Crimson tied Rice for second place with 149 points. Texas A&M-Kingsville and Wake Forest finished a distant fourth and fifth, respectively...
Perhaps he's picking up on the distant strains of a Buddhist chant - or maybe he's just feeling feisty. Whatever the reason, Vice President Al Gore has decided that offense is the best tactic when it comes to campaign finance reform, putting forward a new system in which a $1.7 billion public-private endowment would provide every candidate with his or her total campaign funding. The plan, which was met with lukewarm support from the patron saint of campaign finance, John McCain, would get rid of the direct ties between private contributors, federal officeholders and the two political parties...