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President Reagan made one final swing for hisvice president of eight years, wrapping up a25,000-mile effort on behalf of Republicans...
...Ullyot is a first-year member of Harvard's track team. This summer, Ullyot won a two-and-a-half mile run at Fresh Pond. Track Coach Frank Haggerty spotted the results of that race in the Boston Globe and asked Ullyot to join the team...
Rainey has set records in the 200 and 400 meter races and in the one mile relay...
Only two fuel meltdowns are known to have occurred in U.S. reactors before the crisis at Three Mile Island. Those were in the pioneering days of nuclear weaponry. Besides the partial melting of a fuel rod in 1970, a more recent near calamity took place in March 1982, when a technician at one of the Savannah River reactors left a water valve open, and for twelve hours the undetected flow flooded a large plutonium-processing room. The contaminated water was 2 ft. deep...
...rescue morning, noon and Nightline, there was no turning back. After failing to haul in a massive "hoverbarge" to smash open a pathway to the sea, the team said it would resort to dropping huge concrete blocks to break through the two-foot-thick ice and clear a five-mile path to open water. Ultimately, the mammoth rescue effort involved several helicopters, support vehicles and more than 100 people. While only a heart of stone could fail to be moved by the plight of the three whales, the vast resources consumed by their rescue caused some observers to scratch their...