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When you are prospecting for hundreds of thousands of signatures, you can't afford to miss any opportunity. So Ralph Nader had a few tips for the small group of volunteers who were brainstorming last Wednesday night at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., a state where an independent presidential candidate needs 10,000 signatures to get on the ballot. "It's a very good time to be doing it right now, at graduations," Nader ventured, "and sporting events and churches." Someone else proposed canvassing obvious lefty hangouts like vegan restaurants and bookstore cafes. The volunteers briefly debated waylaying people...
...Following Halley's suggestion, explorers- including, in 1761 and '69, Jeremiah Dixon and Charles Mason, who later surveyed the Mason-Dixon line, and, in 1769, James Cook-headed for remote regions, above, to see the transits that occurred in those years. Unfortunately, observers had to know their precise longitude and latitude, which were hard to measure at the time. As a result, astronomers couldn't calculate the distance from Earth to the sun with much accuracy...
...Gasoline Rainbow failed to satisfy Friday night at the Adams Kronauer Space. The play centers on Gabe (Joe P. Flood ’04), a middle-class white thirty-something who re-enters the world of political activism when he meets the young, vibrant ketamine-dosing Christine (Mysha K. Mason ’04). Bored with his telemarketing job at SkyMall and getting his only thrills from ordering X-rated merchandise for oblivious customers, Gabe gladly springs back onto the rallying circuit. He begins merely by offering innovative protest ideas and typing posters, but he eventually gets sucked into helping...
...know, the committee was disbanded,” said former member Merilee S. Grindle, the Mason professor of international development...
...triple jump, Laine nearly won the event, finishing in second with a jump of 15.11 meters. His effort fell .38 meters shy of winner Marc Kellman from George Mason, but blew away the next best attempt from an Ivy Leaguer at the meet by over half a meter...