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...Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. A misty crescent moon gives glimpses of child-size figures moving about in capes and cowls on a field expedition for earth flora. One of these figures wanders off and encounters the threatening glare of headlights and the honking of car horns. Before the errant extraterrestrial can return to his comrades, the spaceship abruptly ascends and little E.T. is left, alone and friendless, in an alien climate, where he can never flourish and may not survive...
Scientists have learned in recent years that several specific genetic defects occurring in human cells cause beta thalassemia, an incurable blood disorder that can lead to anemia, bone deformation and early death. The problem has been to find a way to reprogram the errant genetic messages. Now a series of experiments, directed by Dr. Yuet Wai Kan of the University of California at San Francisco, has brought researchers a step closer to a cure for one type of the disease...
...stamp," depending upon how it responded to a President's legislative desires. The current Congress, in particular, might well merit praise by refusing to adopt presidential economic policies that it considers too risky. But that is not enough. Inaction and stalemate on the economy can be as dangerous as errant action. The nation cannot afford a prolonged political confrontation between the White House and Capitol Hill. If the President will not yield, Howard Baker and his congressional cohort really have no choice; they must try to provide the U.S. with some degree of economic leadership. Reported by Reported by Neil...
Harvard's first goal came from an unlikey source. Forward Bill Larson, recently called up from the J.V. and known more for his checking than his scoring, picked up an errant pass just in front of the net and poked it past O'Connor at the 12:41 mark of the opening stanza. It was sophomore Larson's third varsity goal...
THOUGHTS ARE ERRANT during exam period. The worlds of fact and doctrine ("Birds cannot actually fly; they are merely prodigious leapers!") collide with the grim fantasies spawned by anxiety ("Perhaps there will be an earthquake and we won't have to take exams"). One sits at a chair and looks out the window. Cambridge does not even have the grace to be covered with snow ("What if Harry Levin actually wrote the plays of Shakespeare?"). Sulpher-laden ice spreads like cancer over the Charles and Roast Beef Specials cost 60 ("If the Atlantic rose a few inches, Boston would...