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...ultraviolet spectrometer, about the size and shape of a window box, will provide new information about the solar flares that erupt now and then from the sun's atmosphere, appearing as tongues of luminous gas flicking outward around sun spots. During a flare, clouds of ionized hydrogen gas--protons and electrons--shoot out, filling interplanetary space with intense radiation. When these clouds encounter the earth and pass through the earth's magnetic field into the polar regions, they produce the northern lights, and cause short-wave radio transmission to fade or black...
...technical school he stole 35 rubles, some stamps, and a pair of wire-cutters, headed for the frontier between Russia and Turkey. He got within a few yards of his goal. One night last November, as Sasha tried to clip his way through the barbed-wire frontier fence, a flare shot into the sky, alarm bells began to jangle, and border guards grabbed Sasha. Moralized Izvestia: "This character, a quite exceptional phenomenon in our country, has become a renegade, betrayed his friends, parents and country. Let him answer before Soviet justice...
Crimson tempers began to flare at this point, and Bill Lamarche's second line began to display some of the aggressive hockey shown in earlier games. Lamarche knocked his first goal in close to the end of the second period...
Harvard tempers began to flare, and two Crimson skaters were sent off the ice for interference. With two men down, the defense could not prevent another Brown goal as Chapman flicked a rebound into the corner of the cage...
Ideally, USNSA seeks to confront American students with questions about the world beyond the academic community. The debates which flare every summer at NSA congresses are intended to serve as starting points for discussion at member schools during the ensuing year. And though this ideal is not always fulfilled, USNSA has generated vigorous debate on a number of issues (the House Un-American Activities Committee, student civil rights and educational policy...