Word: dots
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...Each dot, he said, represented a mistranslated word...
...Each dot, he said, represented a mistranslated word...
...University of Arizona's Steward Observatory, Timothy Spahr, 26, peered through a stereoscopic microscope, shook his head and looked again. In the combined image of two telescopic photos he had shot 30 minutes apart a few nights earlier, a bright dot with a small tail stood out starkly against the background of fixed stars. "I was extremely excited, heart pounding and all that stuff," says Spahr, a graduate student from the University of Florida who was surveying the skies for undiscovered asteroids. He immediately shot and developed a second set of photos, and was shocked to see that in just...
That opinion was backed up, after the crash, by Department of Transportation Secretary Federico Pena, who professed satisfaction with ValuJet's zealous attention to regulators' concerns, a stance echoed by some of his colleagues. Not everyone agreed. DOT Inspector General Mary Schiavo, a presidential appointee who acts as a watchdog for all the agency's programs, including the FAA, ruffled feathers by publicly declaring she would not fly ValuJet. Perhaps she was familiar with the FAA report issued just nine days before the crash and first published by the Chicago Tribune last week. According to that document, the low-cost...
...theft in Eliot House and attacks near Mather House and Adams House are signs that something must be done to improve safety around the River Houses, not to mention in the Quad area. In contrast, the Yard seems to be a pretty safe place. Blue-light emergency phones dot the Yard, a Harvard University Police substation occupies the basement of Weld Hall and many gates of the Yard are locked every evening to protect first-years from the criminals of Cambridge. The knowledge that, as upperclass students, we are far less safe is disturbing. Does the administration think that since...