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Minnesota earned a bye in the first round with its number-two seed. The Golden Gophers will be led by the well-rested skates of junior Captain Dave Snuggerud (27-19--46). Also expected to fill the rope basket are junior wingmen Tom Chorske (24-17--41) and Peter Hankinson (15-26--41). If Wisconsin has gained a mental edge by handily defeating the Saints, then Minnesota may have a physical advantage after resting sores and bruises over the mini-layoff...
Superintendant of Schools Mary Lou McGrath said that the schools would need approximately $250,000--in addition to their regular budget--to provide adequate textbooks and to fill libraries. McGrath added that the head librarian of the schools placed the cost at over $1 million...
That effort, says Caltech research fellow Richard Wilson, "is analogous to going around and shaking hands with everyone on earth." The resulting string of code letters, according to the 1988 National Research Council report urging adoption of the genome project, would fill a million-page book. Even then, much of the message would be obscure. To decipher it, researchers would need more powerful computer systems to roam the length of the genome, seeking out meaningful patterns and relationships...
Speaking to one another in whispers, the hostages listen to Buckley's moans as he grows weaker, and finally delirious. On June 3, Buckley squats on the tile floor believing that he is sitting on a toilet seat, and food fantasies fill his head. "I'd like some poached eggs on toast, please," he mumbles. "I'd like an order of pancakes." That night Buckley starts making strange grunts and the others realize they are hearing the rattle of death, and a guard comes and drags Buckley's body away. Anderson's first letter to his family contains his last...
...address, he flew to Canada. Then he exhausted his staff (though not himself) on a whirlwind five-day tour to Japan, China and South Korea, including formal meetings with two dozen foreign leaders that required extensive preparation and diverted the Administration from the efforts to confirm Tower and to fill other vacant posts...