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...Listen Up. Outdoor concerts follow the warm weather. Check out FM listings or the Boston Phoenix for specifics, but as the weather warms up Boston’s venues fill with national and local bands. Try the Fleet Center Pavilion for outdoor shows...
Also in action was the women's team, which stuck around rainy Boston for the Reed Trophy, a qualifying competition for Women's Nationals in May. Capturing third place out of a large fleet of 17 teams earned a Nationals berth for the Crimson women...
...Unimpressed by Washington's insistence that the program is directed against rogue states, the Russians complain that the missile defense system eviscerates the whole basis of the ABM treaty: that both sides have an equally destructive attacking force. They argue that missile defense neutralizes an opponent's missile fleet, which creates a disparity that they are not prepared to live with. But building missiles is a lot cheaper than building anti-missile systems, so the response to an opponent's defense system is to simply build more missiles than it could eliminate - hence the Russian warning that...
...With such a large and closely packed fleet, it was possible to make both big gains and losses in each race," Bischoff said. "Whoever came out of the crowded mark roundings well tended to post the best scores in the regatta. Having good tacks and gybes in the light air conditions was also extremely important...
...totally automated, computerized operation quickly began discovering more asteroids and comets, large and small, than all the other groups combined. Getting further into the spirit of the game, the Air Force has deployed a second asteroid-hunting scope, is lending another to astronomers and musing, unofficially, about launching a fleet of microsatellites for even better asteroid detection...