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...when time is the very thing you're trying to limit. Another possibility is nuclear thermal propulsion, which uses a larger reactor to superheat traditional propellant and blast it out the engine nozzle. Things move a lot faster with such a system, but the engine as a whole is heavier and cruder and the big reactor causes jitters among environmentalists, who would just as soon see nothing nuclear aboard any rocket that could blow up before it leaves the atmosphere. Astronaut Franklin Chang-Diaz says a plasma-propulsion rocket being developed in NASA's labs will go faster still, getting...
Absent from the realignment was sophomore Mike Baria (141 lbs.), who was not called up to fill one of the heavier vacancies for fear of a possible injury to a wrestler in one of the lower weight classes...
...will be wrestling one weight class higher than when he left, at 197 lbs. instead of 184 lbs. However, this is not unfamiliar territory for him—he spent much of his freshman and sophomore seasons at the heavier weight...
Both Lee and Weiss agree his wrestling style is better suited to 197 lbs. At 184 lbs., the competition is much quicker. Thirteen pounds heavier, matches depend on physical strength...
...grumbled when they got wind of the rumor that former Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 had expressed an interest in voicing the role of Nemo in Finding Nemo, maybe the Department of African and African American Studies would be one luminary heavier today. (Dartboard is sure the performance wouldn’t have been nearly as fishy as West’s turns in the last two Matrix flicks.) Kiss Marxist metaphysics goodbye: it’s time for Merrie Melodies in Cambridge...