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...year later, about 40 students once again took to the front of the Science Center to call for Harvard to parallel schools like Columbia, Stanford and Brown in their recognition of the importance of ethnic studies...
...BEEN CAPABLE OF SENDING EXtraterrestrial signals for only a minute fraction of the billions of years our planet has been habitable. Accepting the astronomically remote assumption that a civilization parallel to ours, with the same technology, currently exists and is a mere 1,000 light-years from us, our signals will reach them around A.D. 3000. Will there be anyone left here on Earth to receive the reply? ROBERT REDDEN Warwick, Rhode Island...
Harvard is currently alone on top of the Ancient Eight, but the parallel wins of Dartmouth--the defending Ivy champion--make this weekend's home games against Penn and Princeton all the more crucial...
...precisely because seniors are (on average) better readers and writers that they will get more out of Senior Seminars than first-years. The faculty can be sure that difficult texts will be understood; they will not need to serve as writing teachers, who must correct split infinitives and demand parallel construction. On efficiency grounds--getting the best use of the senior faculty's time--Senior Seminars are clearly preferable to Freshman Seminars...
...TERRIFYING MINUTES LAST month, 35 pilots were forced to navigate the airspace around Pittsburgh International Airport on a wing and a prayer. As two planes readied to take off from parallel runways and 33 planes cruised the surrounding air corridors, one of the airport's power systems shorted out. That tiny malfunction shut down all radarscopes, telephone lines, landing-instrument systems, radio connections and lights inside the air-control tower. "You have to visualize a radarscope showing two planes aimed at each other from 50 miles away," says Barry Krasner, president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association. "Your equipment...