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Douglas carried letters out of the prison to Bucknell. Knowing that what he was doing was illegal, he protected himself by copying each letter he handled on a campus duplicating machine. The letters were in double envelopes. The outer envelope was addressed and mailed to acquaintances of Sister Elizabeth in New York, who then conveyed the inner envelope to the nun. Letters to Berrigan were handled similarly-mailed to friends Douglas had made on the Bucknell campus. He picked them up from his friends, duplicated them, and normally also had coeds copy them into his course notebooks, which would...
...complex mission of long duration, U.S. scientists suspected shortly after Salyut was launched that something had gone wrong. The heavy cylindrical craft, intended as the hub of a space station, reached an orbit of only 140 by 130 miles. That meant that it was passing through the outer fringes of the atmosphere, which would slow it down and cause it to burn up in a plunge back toward earth within a few weeks...
...next step in the hierarchy is to become either a "Disciple" (one who has a commitment such as a job outside the Church) or a "Messenger," one who devotes all his energies to the Process. Messengers can make the change of status from "Outer Processean" to "Inner Processean." Some of the 15 "Inner Processeans" who are living in the headquarters of the Boston chapter are married and have young children...
Rushed to a top-secret desert laboratory to study a mysterious microbe from outer space, scientists in Michael Crichton's 1969 novel The Andromeda Strain undergo a thorough physical examination before they are allowed to start work. Their hearts, lungs and brain waves are all checked, their body fluids are analyzed, and their immunities to various diseases boosted by shots. But no doctor takes part in the process; the entire examination is automated. Says one member of the team to a colleague: "That machine-you'd better not let the A.M.A. find out about it." The A.M.A. already...
THEY HAVE built a stone wall around the ivory tower. The wall is thick. In the past, occasionally a stone would crash and crumble on the outer gates; inside, we would hear only a muffled thud. At times, a big rock was hurled, big enough to shake the walls, not big enough to topple them. We remember those times as Crises, and after they passed and the rocks lay in sandy ruin on the ground, we reinforced the walls...