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...object of all this historic attention was the dominant member of the constellation Canis Major--Sirius, the brightest[*]star in the night sky and one of the closest to earth (less than nine light-years away). There is just one problem: as any modern stargazer can testify, Sirius is not red but white. How could the ancients have been so wrong...
...brainchild of a group that included David Jones, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and former U.S. Senator and Astronaut Harrison Schmitt. According to Washington P.R. Man Burt Hoffman, who is helping the group organize, Trilogy intends to inform the public about the technical merits of SDI. "The object is to stay in the middle, not to be like High Frontier, which has been labeled as zealots, or the Union of Concerned Scientists, who have also been labeled as zealots," says...
Another episode, not shown to critics, in which a suburban mom goes on a drinking binge, would cause outrage if Factor were asking her to do it for $50,000. But Spurlock says the woman took the challenge as an object lesson to her daughter. "I wouldn't ask anyone to do anything I wouldn't do myself," he says. After 90 gut-busting McMeals, of course, we have a pretty good idea how little that is. --By James Poniewozik
...assailant, who was never identified, struck the victim from behind with a blunt object and attempted to rape her, according to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD). This was the most serious incident in a spate of more than a dozen indecent assaults against Harvard students reported near the Square between fall 2003 and fall...
Some faculty members are likely to object to any attempt to establish a ROTC office at Harvard. “I wouldn’t wish military service in Iraq on anyone,” Paul F. Hoffman, the Hooper professor of geology, wrote in an e-mail yesterday. “So I am opposed to military recruitment on campus or anywhere else for the purpose of perpetuating the occupation...