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Professor of Law Janet Halley, an expert on military policy towards gays, said that if the high court sides with FAIR and rules that the Solomon Amendment is unconstitutional, other federal provisions—including Title IX, a 1972 statute that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex—may be placed in jeopardy...
...first and third, and have him lose the game with some imperceptible twitch of a muscle, spotted only by a man in blue 70 ft. away who then waves home the winning run without the benefit of a single batted ball or even a pitch--that's Halley's Comet. That just doesn't happen. And when it starts happening to your club, you start suffering...
...worst fears of the international Giotto team, it seemed, had been realized. Fully aware of the dangers of meeting any outsize dust particles at the tremendous speed of encounter but determined to get a closeup look, the scientists had aimed the spacecraft to swoop only 338 miles from Halley's dust-shrouded nucleus. That, according to Roger Bonnet, ESA's director of scientific programs, was like playing Russian roulette: "You may survive, but one shot will kill...
...protective dust shields were peppered with particles at a rate of 100 impacts a second, a bombardment that swung its antenna out of alignment with a tracking station in Australia. That brought communications to a halt. But before the blackout, Giotto relayed more than 2,000 images of Halley's back to earth, plus a torrent of data from the ten on-board instruments...
Although scientists will be interpreting Giotto's data for months to come, Horst Keller, principal investigator of the camera team, announced some preliminary results. Halley's nucleus appeared to be 9.4 miles long and at least 2.5 miles wide, he said, and the surface, "velvet black and very irregular, with an indentation in the middle, like a peanut or a potato." On one side of the nucleus were what appeared to resemble nozzles, spewing out one minor and two major jets of gas and dust. Keller was puzzled by the blackness of the nucleus, which suggested that there is little...