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...Overall it was a bad day for Harvard--only the second freshman boat and the third varsity won in earlier races--everything that could have gone wrong did," MacMillan said. "We warmed up, and then had to wait over an hour before facing; our lighter fiberglass Schoenbrod shells were not as sturdy in the weather as the heavier, wooden Pocock shells Navy raced in. The waves were even higher than the gunwhales--what...
...more distant future, such stations, like the great wheel in 2001: A Space Odyssey, could serve as a launch pad for journeys far beyond the earth, maybe to Mars. Interplanetary spacecraft assembled in earth orbit could be made of much lighter and less costly materials since they would not have to survive the stresses and friction of travel through the earth's atmosphere...
With so many longtime critics of military spending ousted from Congress last fall, there were few left to question last week's defense bonanza. Democratic Senator Gary Hart argued against the expensive Nimitz carrier in favor of lighter, less expensive models. Republican Mark Hatfield, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, promises to push for some type of arms limitation agreement. Says Hatfield: "We're spending and building first before seeing if there is a method of obviating the need for that buildup. It's unnecessary and it's dangerous...
...them six miles deep and three miles across. They were formed tens of millions of years ago-some even before the age of the dinosaurs-by the evaporation of ancient saline seas. Layer upon layer of sediment piled atop the dried-up ocean beds. Gradually, columns of the lighter salt were forced upward by the pressure, like putty squeezed through the fingers of a slowly clenching fist. In the U.S. alone, there are more than 500 such salt domes, all of them in or around the Gulf of Mexico...
Unidentified arsonists doused the kiosks in front of Massachusetts and Lehman Halls with lighter fluid and set them ablaze at about 11 p.m. last night, destroying many posters, but leaving the $7000 metal structures undamaged. Both fires went out in less than five minutes, witnesses said. Members of the student protest organization GUERRILLA denied responsibility for the incident. University police last night refused to comment on the matter...