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Harvard also took the second freshman race by two lengths over the Big Green. MIT was a very distant third. However, MIT did manage to capture the third varsity fours race over Harvard...
...argument goes like this: quasars, which are small, starlike objects, apparently shine more brightly than any other celestial bodies; the most distant quasar known to man, more than 12 billion light years away, appears so luminous to the astronomer's telescope that even more distant quasars, though less bright, should also be visible. Because astronomers do not see anything further, Sandage argues that the universe must be finite rather than infinite. And beyond that edge astronomers say there is nothing at all because, in the Delphic tongue of science, space at that distance falls back on itself...
...Toms at the keyhole of eternity." Many of them, for example, believe that those incredibly bright objects known as quasars (for quasi-stellar) sit at the very "edge" of the universe; that possibility got renewed support only last week when astronomers reported finding a quasar that may be as distant as 12 billion light-years from earth. A dissenting minority, including Fred Hoyle, offers another startling view: quasars are nearby objects, possibly newborn, in which supposedly in violable constants such as the acceleration of gravity are not constant but continually changing. Then there are pulsars, the collapsed cadavers of giant...
Residents of eastern Montana are justifiably proud of their "big sky" country. Its green-brown prairie, dotted by scrub and ponderosa pine, stretches in austere grandeur to a distant horizon. But the stark beauty of this region, into which cattle and sheep ranches comfortably blend, is now being threatened by America's insatiable appetite for energy...
...distance medley relay, which was supposed to be the Crimson's strongest event, was billed as a two-team race between B.C. and Harvard. But the Eagles came up with a meet and school record breaking time of 10:00.2, leaving the Crimson in the dust to finish a distant fifth...