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...Tigers also have a strong contender at number two, Randy Johnson, but the rest of the ladder is considerably weaker than Harvard...
...boys' schools are worrying, the girls' schools are running scared Farmington, an old and prestigious girls' schools, has had a large drop in applicants. Miss Hall's, a notch down on the academic and social ladder, is also having trouble filling its beds. St. Timothy's, a school of Farmington's stature, accepts over half its appellants, and applications are "considerably down" at Westover, a middle-echelon school...
...moon was created. Alan Shepard could hardly describe what he saw. "It certainly is a stark place here at Fra Mauro," he said. Then, as his image flickered onto millions of TV screens back on earth, the 47-year-old Navy captain took the last two steps down the ladder of Antares, the lunar lander. Finally his heavy boots scuffed the soft, grayish-brown dust of the moon's ancient highlands. "It's been a long way," said Shepard, the first and oldest American ever to journey into space. "But we're here...
Four Americans had already trod on lunar soil, and the TV picture-the ghostly figure on the ladder, the sharp contrast between the black sky and the sun-drenched land-was strikingly familiar. Yet, for millions of viewers around the world, seeing a fellow man walking on the distant moon was still a wondrous experience. It was a dramatic reminder of what man, at his technological best, can achieve...
Moments later, Shepard's crewmate, Edgar Mitchell, followed him down the ladder. Twice the 40-year-old Navy commander hopped off the bottom steps. The relaxed grip of lunar gravity left him as exhilarated as a child in a playground. "Mobility is very great under this 'crushing' one-sixth-G load," Mitchell told Mission Control back home in Houston. Then, with slow, effortless strides, Shepard and Mitchell teamed up for the most ambitious program of lunar exploration ever undertaken. For nearly ten hours, the fifth and sixth human visitors to the moon crisscrossed their Fra Mauro landing...