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In past years, Adams House residents dipped strawberries in melted chocolate in the dimly lit and appropriately decorated Senior Common Room, while students in costume served the sensuous sweets to the guests.
For 30 years, it has survived the Vietnam War, disco, Cindy Lauper and wretched Boston winters. But this past December, time stopped in Harvard Square. The mechanical controller for the digital clock above Cambridge Savings Bank "melted," according to Nelson Goddard, senior vice president of administration for the bank.
The exercise was code-named Poised Response. Attorney General Janet Reno had invited 200 policemen from the Washington metropolitan area to the FBI's headquarters last Oct. 14 to plan how they'd react to a terrorist attack in the nation's capital. They settled in that Wednesday morning to...
The fact that the meteorite exists at all, says Kyte, also strongly suggests that it came from an asteroid, not from a comet, as many scientists still believe. He notes that comets strike the earth at such high speeds--many of them well over 100,000 m.p.h.--that they are...
More than 70 anti-Saddam grouplets sit around plotting in coffee shops from London to Amman. They cover every shade of opinion and ethnic coloration, including Islamists with Shi'ite and Sunni subdivisions, Kurd separatists, Arab nationalists, communists and liberal democrats. Their only common goal is to depose Saddam, but...