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...other attempts involving such kindred creatures as lions and tigers have inexplicably failed. In any case, last week's success raises hopes that similar transfer techniques can be used to ensure the survival of other endangered species as well. The Bronx Zoo hopes to perform the same feat with a rare Arabian oryx...
Yeah, and Harvard has a better football team than Notre Dame. Don't mourn too long for this foursome. The police came and asked them to turn down the volume. They did, the police left, they turned the knob back up again, and three months later they graduated (a feat they celebrated with another, even larger, party). They are proof positive of an axiom worth knowing: most of the rules and regulations relating to conduct are enforced about as often as state statues against oral...
...large quantities in his bedroom, which would seem to fall under "possession on University property of...explosives or combustible fluids." Indeed, his freshman adviser asked him to stop. But it was only when he had the bad taste to go on a local t.v. show and boast about his feat that they asked him to withdraw...
NATO has now lasted 32 years, a remarkable feat for a very strange alliance, strung out from Hawaii to the Black Sea. The 15 members are the signatories of the North Atlantic Treaty, though one of them, France, seceded from the military organization (not technically an alliance) that implements the treaty -a massive inconvenience in NATO military planning. The heart of the treaty is Article 5: "The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all." The drafters of the treaty wisely refrained from...
...minutes later, after a flight of 230 miles at speeds no more than 47 m.p.h., Ptacek touched down at Manston Royal Air Force Base on the southeastern coast of England some 20 miles north of Dover. His odyssey might have made Icarus drop with envy. In a historic feat, Challenger had managed to cross the Channel powered only by the glinting rays...