Word: landed
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...there is to be an attempt at a landing and a rescue. On Tuesday, two giant Hercules cargo planes were due to arrive on the Antarctic coast, biding time until the temperatures climb to at least -50 F for the journey to the interior. In those (relatively) balmy conditions, the planes will be able to make their 1,600-mile round trip to the research station. The pilots will have little time for pleasantries; the craft are expected to land for no more than 30 minutes, during which they?ll pick up Nielsen and drop off her replacement. After...
...hard to make a go of it in L.A. But it was McNair that came up with $195 million in public financing for his $310 million new stadium. It?s a sign of community interest that neither of the L.A. groups could come up with in blas? La-La Land, and to NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue, it?s a sign that football isn?t dead in Houston. Of course, don?t be too surprised if in a few years football is suddenly declared viable in L.A. again. Say, for an even billion...
...recent e-mail message, Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 called the Mahoney land "neither a convenient nor especially safe commute from the center of undergraduate life...
Orchard acknowledges having looked at plans for a contemporary art museum on the swath of land just past Peabody Terrace, on the site now occupied by Mahoney's Garden Center. This museum could potentially hold a theater space, he said...
...technology in question was developed by a cotton company, Delta and Pine Land, for which Monsanto is spending $1 billion. Some activists were concerned about a future where farmers are locked into the local seed store for their livelihood, while others feared that the suicide genes could cross-pollinate with other plants, creating widespread sterility. "Monsanto bowed to public pressure," says TIME science writer Jeffrey Kluger. "This technology is still several years down the road, so there wasn't any immediate payoff, and it was costing them quite a bit in terms...