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...Green's Class of 1993 was quarterback Jay Fiedler. Fieldler took virtually every snap the last three years and set 12 school records, including Ivy League marks for touchdown passes in a game (five) and career (45) and total yardage (5,371). His departure leaves a gaping hole in the team's offense, made worse by key losses on the offensive line and among the receiving corps...
Astronomers have been pondering the riddle of the quasars for more than 30 years, wondering what prodigious energy source could possibly make these starlike objects visible from halfway across the universe. The leading theory: a quasar is gas falling into a gigantic black hole. As the gas is compressed, it heats up to millions of degrees, glowing brightly enough to outshine an entire galaxy; occasionally, jets of hot gas spray out, like juice squirting from a squeezed orange...
...Miguel County requires developers to set aside 15% of their sites for affordable housing. In Aspen, where resistance to more new "monster homes" has great zeal, there is a proposal to raise the amount of new development that must go for modest housing from 40% to 60%. In Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where a 14,000-sq.-ft., three-bedroom log cabin is going up, building inspector Dennis Johnson says a campground for low-wage earners might not be a bad idea...
...freeloaders who live dirty and like it. Then there is the libertarian case: Jesus was a hippie, man. But for the most part community leaders would like to get everyone back indoors, particularly when it's nasty outside. Of course the ( sorehead view is widespread too. As Jackson Hole builder Jacques Sarthou sees it, "You don't go into Beverly Hills and demand cheap housing just because you want to live there. If you cannot afford it, tough luck." But Beverly Hills is spang in the middle of one of America's largest urban bowls, Mr. Sarthou. It doesn...
...line of expectant voters outside grew longer. Was this another case of ballot hijacking by the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, the P.R.I.? Finally, Caralampio Amparo Perez, an election official, emerged waving one of his replacement boxes over his head. He had improvised with cookie cartons; each had a hole cut into the side and covered with a plastic bag to create a makeshift window. The voters nodded, and by day's end they and the country had elected Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon Mexico's next President...