Word: domes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meander by and mess up the game. As much as I can tell, "Deluxe Parcheesi" appears to be a contradiction in terms: you could play that game with pebbles and a dirt surface, for Christ's sake. "Trouble" is apparently worthwhile because it encloses the dice in a "popomatic" dome, keeping your child or -- more importantly -- the abovementioned Lhasa Apso from asphyxiating on the little cubes...
...Patents, Copyrights, and Licensing booth advertised "invention advice" for 5 cents and featured a collapsible geodesic dome made of coffee-stirrers and dental floss a wind-up jumping mouse that went up in the space shuttle, and a coin bank whose skeletal, green hand emerges from inside to snatch pennies...
...roughly 15 students present when the dome's driving mechanism stuck were members of Science B-16, "The History of Earth and of Life." The course's leader, Agassiz Professor of Zoology Stephen J. Gould, had obtained special permission for his students to use the telescope to view Halley's comet last week...
Repairs to the mechanism that opens and closes the dome will not be completed until early next week...
Students are not generally allowed up to the dome unless they are accompanied by a director or have attended a preliminary training session. Friday's guard, however, apparently gave the keys to the telescope room to a group of 10 to 15 students...