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...failed 1937 journey. Flint will use global positioning satellite technology to pinpoint her location, VHF radio communications to expedite landings and take-offs and an in-cabin computer to communicate via e-mail with school children following her flight on the Internet. Other than a slight detour over northern Africa to avoid political unrest in Sudan, Finch's flight route will follow precisely the path taken by Earhart. Waving breezily to reporters, Finch says she has no jitters about her 29,000 mile flight. The original Earhart flight ended in disaster after 22,000 miles when Earhart, her navigator...
Inevitably, of course, there are abuses, and flagrant ones are prosecuted. Sippe Schat, a doctor from northern Friesland, goes on trial later this month for the alleged murder of a 72-year-old cancer patient who had seemed in good spirits just before she died in a nursing home. According to prosecutors, Schat simply gave her a lethal shot of insulin without consulting anyone and left her to die alone, allegedly telling a nurse as he left, "If she hasn't died by 7 a.m. tomorrow, give me a call...
...about to change dramatically. By the end of next week, Hale-Bopp's path across the sky will take the comet right into prime time. By April 1 or so, when it makes its closest approach to Earth, the comet will be high in the evening skies over the northern hemisphere, brighter than ever and showing a short but prominent tail. And there it will sit, not for a measly week like Hyakutake, but for more than a month. "I predict that this could be the most viewed comet in all of human history," says Daniel Green, an astronomer...
Sarah Dunford '98, who is writing her thesis on the peace process in Northern Ireland and is from Boston, was enthusiastic about the speakers...
Billy Hutchinson, a senior spokesperson for the Progressive Unionist Party in Northern Ireland, and the Honorable Alex Atwood, member of the Social Democratic and Labor Party and of the Belfast City Council, spoke before an audience of about...