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...storm, readings taken by Mariner's infrared spectrometer enabled JPL investigators to identify several earthlike minerals in the Martian crust, including quartz, granite and anorthocite. Those findings caused considerable excitement among the scientists. They indicated that Mars had at one point in its history undergone melting and that lighter elements had floated to the surface, later hardening into an earthlike crust. Included among the lighter elements are carbon compounds that were necessary for the development of life on earth. Said NASA Exobiologist Jerry Soffen, who is project scientist for the Viking program that will make a purposeful attempt...
...letter to Dean Dunlop November 19th. Banfield wrote he had "decided to leave not because of any grievance or complaints. The simple fact is that Pennsylvania has offered me conditions, including a lighter teaching load, which I feel sure will enable me to do more and better work on the subjects which interest...
Although Banfield will receive a higher salary at Pennsylvania. Wilson said that pay was not the decisive factor. Wilson attributed the move to "a lighter teaching load and more money for secretarial help, research, and travel." Banfield will be free of allegiance to any one department at Penn and will teach only as much as he wants, Wilson added...
...Mich. EPA officials were delighted with the engine, which works by using compressed air to drive its turbines. Compact, vibrationless and delivering 80 h.p., it runs on any hydrocarbon fuel from kerosene to coal oil. and gets about 15 miles per gallon in urban traffic. It is also 30% lighter (at 250 Ibs.), has 75% fewer moving parts, and is thus cheaper to build and maintain than the standard-size internal combustion engine. The gas turbine never needs a tune-up because it has no timing to adjust, no carburetor or complicated fuel injection. Because it is air-cooled...
Until now the Radcliffe team has had to make do with the old, heavy shells and oars in Weld Boat House where intramural House crews practice. "Women ought to row lighter prep-school shells with shorter, narrower oars," said co-captain Charlotte Crane '72. "The Weld boats not only carry too much wood for us, but some are so old they've been fiberglassed over once or twice as well...