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Fifth-place Cornell can either drop to sixth place or can grab the last home-ice slot. The Big Red is only two points behind Clarkson in the standings. A big home weekend at Lynah Rink can result in an extra homestand...
...issue was, of course, the proposed pay raise that would have lifted congressional wages from $89,500 to $135,000 a year and far more equitably compensated federal judges and top Executive Branch officials. After weeks of public posturing against the Great Salary Grab, while privately coveting the raises, Congressmen had been hopeful that their Machiavellian maneuvers would pay off -- literally. If House Speaker Jim Wright just held firm against a vote, the salary increase would automatically take effect at midnight last Tuesday night. But Wright wavered; the House quavered and overwhelmingly killed the salary hike by a vote...
...Wars trilogy, as well as the recent smash Die Hard, in the full-frame format. Even E.T. was letter- boxed on disc, and Spielberg's earlier 1941, when it arrives on disc this summer, will be in wide screen and contain some 20 minutes of previously deleted smash-and-grab comedy footage. All this feverish cinema archaeology confirms that laser disc is not only the best way to see movies but also the best way to see a lot more of them...
Rice, a Mississippian, was equally at home in the cold, showing hands like an Eskimo in catching five balls for 133 yards. On his first TD catch, he leaped high into the air to grab the ball; on his second, he reached down and grabbed the ball at his ankles as San Francisco took a 14-3 halftime lead...
Despite the alarm with which scientists view this trend, biodiversity has just surfaced on the world's political agenda. The troubles of high-profile animals such as the tiger and rhino grab public attention, while most people hardly see the point of worrying about insects or plants. But extinction is the one environmental calamity that is irreversible. As these lowly species disappear unnoticed, they take with them hard-won lessons of survival encoded in their genes over millions of years...