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...mixed bag of nags running on a spongy grass surface, it was not the easiest race for bettors to sort out, and by the time the field of twelve horses paraded to the post, rain was falling steadily. So it was understandable that many fans had started to drift toward the exits. But something happened during the ninth race on Sept. 23 that stopped the exodus and sent horseplayers back to stare at the tote board with envious wonderment. After leading most of the way, a 57-to-1 long-shot Uruguayan import named Lebón had breezed easily...
...visiting committee in its 1976 report concluded that the GSD suffers from a "drift away from professional competence." The report stated the CRP in particular places too much emphasis on policy analysis and social sciences, unwisely downplaying planning as a professional discipline. Earlier in this decade, the department terminated its doctoral program, focusing almost exclusively on a two-year masters degree program for professional training in planning. Although most members of the faculty defend the CRP's current curriculum, a few professors have voiced criticisms even sharper than those of the visitors, terming the program inadequate for a professional...
...Brussels, Ilya Prigogine, 60, is a poet of thermodynamics whose work helps explain how life could have come into being on earth in apparent defiance of some of the classic laws of physics. The second law of thermodynamics holds that energy tends to dissipate and that organized systems drift into disorder. But many biological processes, including the ones in which simple acids combine to form complex molecules or in which cells join together to form higher organisms, seem to contradict this rule. Prigogine has provided a method for including biological systems within the framework of thermodynamics. Some 20 years...
Well I gotta be goin' now, got big things to do if ya catch my drift. But I'll tell ya one more thing, and don't ya tell no one ya spoke to me or nuthin', but ya can be sure that ol' Joe is havin' a mighty nice little chuckle to himself this week...
...before we drift away to that fairyland in Rhode Island, let's remember that the women's tennis team will be playing its final fall match this afternoon at 3:30 p.m. at Palmer Dixon. This will be the last time you'll be able to see the fearsome freshman stars of the team in competition until the spring. Think about that...