Word: mounds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sophomore Bob Baxter returns to the mound for the Crimson this year. The sophomore lefthander had an outstanding freshman year, posting a 5-1 record and an amazing 0.63 earned-run average. That mark, the second-best ERA in Harvard history, was good enough to earn Baxter first-team All-Ivy and second-team All-EIBL honors...
Marcia Rieke sits on a mound of dirt on a cold mountaintop, nearly two miles up in the clear Arizona sky, watching the sun go down and worrying. A shadow slowly creeps past her, cast by a nearby tan, four-story building that looks like a gigantic bread box. Inside the bread box is the Multiple Mirror Telescope, the world's third most powerful telescope. It looks like no other. There is no glistening dome; it might be a four-story barn. But there are 800 * tons of it, and it turns. The whole structure can pirouette 360 degrees, enormously...
...conduct, found itself embroiled in another controversy over a ghastly incident in the West Bank village of Salim. There, army officials said last week, Israeli soldiers forced four suspected riot leaders to lie on the ground last Feb. 5 and ordered an army bulldozer driver to push a mound of earth over them. Miraculously, the victims were dug out alive by villagers after the soldiers left. Army officials ; announced that two soldiers had been arrested for allegedly participating in the incident...
BEST SCUFF/SNUFF JOB Minnesota Pitcher Joe Niekro was caught with an emery board on the mound at the height of baseball's season-long tempest over scuffed balls and corked bats. A meaner illegal substance, cocaine, stymied Mets Pitcher Dwight Gooden...
...earth. And it is the biosphere that threatens to tip the balance. To be sure, many of its effects are natural and as such have long been part of the climatic equilibrium. Termites, for example, produce enormous amounts of gas as they digest woody vegetation: a single termite mound can emit five liters of methane a minute. The methane escapes into the atmosphere, where it can not only destroy ozone but also act as a greenhouse gas in its own right. "Termites," says Environmental Chemist Patrick Zimmerman, of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, "could be responsible for as much...