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Indeed, the sheer amount of historical research that went into preparing this year's report was unusual as well. Rudenstine's predecessors often used their reports to address specific issues from the previous year or challenges on the horizon...
Each day, as the Earth turns, the BETA (for Billion-channel Extra-Terrestrial Assay) telescope sweeps a circular swath through the heavens, elevated at a slightly different fixed angle from the horizon with each successive turn. During each circuit it captures radio waves reaching Earth at frequencies between 1400 and 1720 megahertz--a broad but relatively "quiet" region of the radio spectrum. "In the 1960s we were looking in a few niches and hoping the extraterrestrials had put their jewels there," says astronomer Frank Drake, who launched the first SETI project in 1960. "They didn't. Now we are doing...
...transition from the confines of the University to the wide-open "real world" is looming on the horizon, and decisions on graduate school and employment applications are beginning to pour...
Gingrich envisions a promised land--an America that may lie just over the horizon, in his cherished Third Wave Information Age, where traditional values connect to the future. He hopes to get to a place beyond poverty and violence and moral decay by leaving behind the welfare state and the deadening, blockheaded bureaucratic mind of Washington: a renewed civilization, says Newt--Norman Rockwell in the 21st century, a wholesome Utopia. Newt's destination has the refulgence of a never-never land--that is, an ideal. But in America, ideals have always been a necessary and efficient form of national energy...
Catalyst? Didn't play all that great in a blowout win? Are there even bigger things on the Crimson horizon? Is such a notion possible for the Harvard men's basketball team...