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Ever since their modest beginnings, though, many of Harvard's bands have had a little taste of stardom--and they have the groupies to prove...
...detect the threatening object and dispatch a warhead-tipped rocket to intercept it and explode, nudging it into a new orbit that would carry it safely past Earth. For a small asteroid detected years and many orbits before its destined collision, the solution would be straightforward. "You apply some modest impulse to it at its perihelion, or closest point to the sun, using conventional explosives," explains Gregory Canavan, a senior scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. "The slight deflection that results will amplify during each orbit, ensuring that the asteroid misses Earth by a wide margin...
...allied air strike was intended to send Saddam a political admonition to reform his behavior, rather than deliver a crippling military blow. The modest raid by 110 U.S., British and French warplanes on four missile sites and four command posts in southern Iraq was, as one U.S. official noted, "a spanking, not a beating" -- and an inefficient one at that. The attack destroyed only one of the missile batteries the U.S. claimed were threatening allied aircraft in the skies over Iraq, although officials insisted that all but one of the eight targets were at least temporarily put out of action...
...BALANCE THE BUDGET by 1984. Congress, in the first, 1985, version of the Gramm-Rudman Act, promised to wipe out the deficit by 1990. Bill Clinton in last year's campaign merely proposed to cut red ink in half in four years. But if his vow was more modest, it was not, apparently, any more realistic than -- well, George Bush's prediction three years ago of a balance by fiscal 1993. In fact, Bush's final budget reveals that during his Administration the deficit nearly doubled, rising to an expected $327.3 billion in fiscal 1993 -- the current year. Forecast...
...Sereno, an assistant professor of anatomy at Chicago and a leader of the expedition. "We are just a couple of steps away from the ancestor of all dinosaurs." The scientists named the find Eoraptor, or "dawn stealer," because it appeared at the dawn of the dinosaurs and, considering its modest size, probably used stealth rather than brute force to snatch small prey...