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Hughes Danbury had preserved the null corrector in the exact position that had been used to grind and polish the mirrors in the early 1980s...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NASA Committee Finds Root of Hubble Trouble | 8/10/1990 | See Source »

...want to antagonize the Reagan Administration, which was worried about the huge liability costs if Agent Orange was shown to cause the veterans' ailments. Whatever the reasons for its failure, the decision not to complete the study leaves open a vexing problem: whether Agent Orange will exact a toll on Vietnam vets and their descendants for generations to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Cover-Up on Agent Orange? | 7/23/1990 | See Source »

Others laugh more heartily at this than Young does. The exact degree of Young's blackness has always been a matter of debate in and around the S.C.L.C. Nor does Lowery let the matter drop. "We were just over in Cape Town, where they have all these degrees of color -- whites, Indians, coloreds, blacks. I don't know just where I'd put you, Andy" -- with an appraising look at him across the dais -- "somewhere between white and Indian and colored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANDREW YOUNG: Georgia Is Much on His Mind | 7/16/1990 | See Source »

Down the block, Cambridge Booksmith (nee Paperback Booksmith), at 25 Brattle St., is the exact opposite of the Coop. Understated and decidedly unglitzy, the Booksmith looks more like a book warehouse. But don't be fooled--its unpretentious paperback offerings are inexpensive and throrough, and bear the mark of a well-read staff...

Author: By Brian R. Hecht, | Title: Catering to Harvard Consumers | 6/25/1990 | See Source »

...what eventually happened shocked all. Wisconsin's Badgers beat the Crimson by a whopping 4.34 seconds--almost the exact time by which the Harvard men had blown the same team away only a month ago at the Eastern Sprints...

Author: By Madhavi Sunder, | Title: Crimson Heavyweights Upset in Nationals | 6/25/1990 | See Source »

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