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...unprecedented arrangement will allow U.S. seismologists to place three monitoring stations within 100 miles of Semipalatinsk, 1,800 miles from Moscow in eastern Kazakhstan, and Soviet scientists to erect their sensors near Yucca Flats, Nev., where U.S. universities have monitored underground tests for years. (Atmospheric tests were halted in 1963 after the U.S. and the Soviet Union signed the Limited Test Ban Treaty.) The U.S. team, led by University of Colorado Seismologist Charles Archambeau, will place digital seismometers in three 300-ft.-deep holes drilled by the Soviets. A two-man team will remain near Semipalatinsk to monitor the findings...
...MANY of those people were from Red Hook? That's the run-down section of Brooklyn where the inhabitants had an almost perfect view of the celebration. That is, they had a perfect view until the head honchos decided to erect high walls along the waterfront so that people waiting to be ferried to their $5000 seats wouldn't have to view one of Brooklyn's poorest neighborhoods...
Religion. Burger could be found on both sides of the separation between church and state. In 1984 he wrote the decision permitting Pawtucket, R.I., to erect a creche as part of its Christmas display but struck down a Connecticut law giving workers the right to a day off on their Sabbath. Scalia is expected to agree with Rehnquist's view that there is no "wall" between church and state...
Such proficiency tests are not likely to expand too far into other departments, Pihl said. "If we erect too many barriers it contradicts our mission. We don't want to close people...
Unlike their Cambridge counterparts, the house masters decided to erect the $850 metal grates on the coldest night of the winter. And unlike Cambridge, this was Harvard...