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Criticizing Harvard's football team after a one-sided loss is usually like eating a Fig Newton: you first carefully nibble at a thin outer layer of remediable vices before getting to the icky heart of the matter...
...some cases the flashing, the layer of material between a building's outer walls and inner walls used to keep out precipitation, has deteriorated. While all flashing wears down over time, most of the older buildings used more durable materials, usually lead-coated copper, that lasts for about 100 years, says Michael N. Litton, acting director of the Office of Physical Resources...
Over the board, Short does not display the sort of crass aggressiveness with which Kasparov intimidates his opponents. He is cool and controlled, though under pressure he may fidget like an Oxford don struggling for the right translation of an Ovid couplet. But behind this outer tranquillity, he plots his opponent's destruction. After all, this is a man who once described chess as mental boxing...
NASA has appointed a kind of outer-space swat team to figure out how to make up for the scientific gap left by the loss of Mars Observer. The team, which includes all-around space guy Carl Sagan, will look into whether cheaper, less complex space probes can map Mars and whether foreign nations should be invited to take part. A report is due in two months...
That is when the earth will be passing close to the orbit of the comet Swift-Tuttle, which reappeared last year for the first time since 1862, swooped around the sun on Dec. 12 and headed back toward the outer solar system. Like all other comets, Swift-Tuttle sheds debris consisting largely of conglomerations of ice and dust, most of it boiled from the comet when it is in the vicinity of the sun. This material remains in orbit and gradually disperses along the comet's entire path, in effect forming a giant debris- laden tube in space. Each August...