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...shrugs. "There's alot of intolerance I didn't expect. When everyone got the brochure in their registration packet that said, 'Someone you care about may be gay,' that was the biggest joke around. Not that there's anything wrong with being conservative--it's very difficult to have interesting discussions if everyone agrees with you. But I was a little disappointed...
...Wednesday evening a call came from the Illinois Beach State Park, 30 miles north of Chicago: a packet of Janice's ID cards had been found in a trash can. The next morning, Axthelm received the rueful letter, 13 pages handwritten by Runkle on the flight to O'Hare. In it she recounted her last, stormy hours with Campo. "The first two hours he spent threatening to kill both of us," she wrote. "Funny part is, a couple of years ago, I went out with someone he knew and he hardly batted an eye, though we were even...
...earth orbit, it evoked multilingual cheers from technicians at France's Guiana Space Center and from European space officials watching a huge TV monitor outside Paris ("Très jolie!" "Excellent trajectory!"). The rocket carried a European weather observatory called Meteosat 2, an Indian communications satellite and a packet of heat-measuring devices. The flawless launch marked the first time the European Space Agency (ESA) had sent major payloads into orbit with its own booster...
...that markets start-a-school kits nationwide. The fee scale is complicated, but a basic initial A.C.E. charge is $950. Students work at their own speed, completing workbooks every three to four weeks. They are not allowed to proceed unless they score at least 80% on tests of each packet they complete. Sample English lesson: "It is a great tragedy that as talented a man as Mark Twain could never find peace with God instead of fighting...
...some of the victories were less than complete. Lost in parliamentary procedure during its December meeting, the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life did not approve the placement of an informational pamphlet on homosexuality in second semester registration packets. It did, however, authorize the introduction of a second packet, which eventually contained the GSA's brochure...