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...Harvard Law School dean, will go down in the history books for being on the wrong side of the high court’s 6-to-3 landmark decision. But here on campus, he will be forever known as the namesake of the supremely ugly gray brick office building northwest of the Science Center...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In His Memoir, Lawyer Abrams Decries Encroachments on Free Speech | 7/1/2005 | See Source »

...fierce opposition from the Pentagon. The military, with support from the major weapons-research laboratories, wants to continue experimenting with its modernized nuclear arsenal, particularly technology that might be used to implement the President's Strategic Defense Initiative. Last Saturday at an under ground site in Pahute Mesa, Nev., northwest of Las Vegas, the U.S. exploded a device (code-named Goldstone) designed to channel the energy of a nuclear blast into a concentrated, powerful beam of X-rays that could knock out a missile or warhead. Indeed, it may have been the Soviets' fear of SDI that pushed the Kremlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Test-Ban Talks? The two sides show some give | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...anywhere in the U.S. for an incredible $65. The first $65 tickets were sold to Susan Brunson, 115, and her "baby daughter" Mary McDaniel, 75, of Roosevelt, N.Y., who plan to fly to Miami or Los Angeles to visit relatives. All the largest airlines, including American, United, Delta and Northwest Orient, are offering discounts of up to 75% if passengers make their reservations 30 days in advance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Super Savings in the Skies | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...June, Ottawa backed away from its plan to reduce Canada's federal deficit by changing the indexation of old-age pensions. In August, many Canadians were offended when Ottawa failed to take the initiative in protesting the passage of the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Sea through the Northwest Passage, which Canada claims as a territorial waterway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Charisma Is Not Enough | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...geese, more than 500 bald eagles, 104 piping plovers, 110 least terns and 96 of the world's remaining population of 171 whooping cranes. Few bird watchers are lucky enough to spot the latter along their 2,500-mile flight from the Gulf Coast of Texas to Canada's Northwest Territories. They are secretive, and they travel in small groups. But no one in the area along Nebraska's Platte River can avoid encountering the whooper's brethren, the sandhills, which tarry for weeks in concentrations of 20,000 per mile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Nebraska: A Joyful Spring Racket | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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