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...Salvador, and Iran (among many others), or make nuclear and other response, to U.S. Government securities issued in the last five years (which largely financed the military buildup), would have to go. This isolationism ad absurdam would serve no purpose whatsoever other than to provide a moral salve to distant and insulated Harvard students and faculty members...
...much less disappointing, since they fell out of the running much earlier in the meet. While the Elis edged out the Tigers, 68-67. Harvard finished a distant third with a meager...
Boston University finished a distant third with 52, followed by Boston College, Brandeis and MII-who tied for fifth and Tufts...
...feeble light of the distant sun, Voyager 2 hurtled toward Uranus last week, rapidly accelerating under the gravitational pull of the huge gaseous body. Aboard the spacecraft, two television cameras and an array of instruments focused on the ever enlarging sphere and its rings and moons, snapping pictures and taking readings that were beamed to earth, almost 2 billion miles away. At week's end, as Voyager whipped past the mysterious blue-green planet, soaring as close as 50,679 miles to its cloudtops at 42,143 m.p.h., streams of new data from the craft poured into the control room...
...passed Uranus last week, Voyager looked back at the planet, now silhouetted against the distant sun, seeking to learn more about the rings by observing sunlight passing through them. One early finding: the rings contained far less dust than those circling Saturn. Then, its direction changed by the tug of Uranian gravity, the hardy little spacecraft began a 3 1/2-year trip to Neptune, which it is scheduled to encounter in August...