Word: parts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Part of the job of any government, student government or Harvard administration, should be regular and unconditional funding of the arts. I understand that the idea of only providing start-up funding is to make organizations prove their worth, and prevent them from existing just because they can get money. But proving the worth of a literary magazine does not mean being financially independent...
Harvard athletes do not receive extensive support from the Athletic Department. According to Assistant Athletic Director Bob Malekoff, athletes are briefed at the beginning of the year about eligibility requirements. But for the most part, Malekoff says, the Athletic Department deals with athletes through coaches. The Athletic Department is primarily concerned with freshman athletes, Malekoff says...
...trade officials contend that the E.C. ban is motivated in large part by protectionism, since European beef producers are raising more cattle than they can sell locally or abroad. E.C. nations added 140,000 tons of excess beef to meat-locker stockpiles last year, bringing the total surplus to more than 723,000 tons, or nearly two months of European consumption...
...strange ideas in physics, perhaps the strangest is the wormhole. It comes perilously close to science fiction: a wormhole is a hole in the fabric of space and time, a tunnel to a distant part of the universe. While no one has proved that wormholes exist, that does not for a moment keep the more adventurous of thinkers from trying to figure how they might behave. Last fall, for example, three researchers from Caltech floated the notion that in theory at least, wormholes could be time machines...
...reach the apple's other side is the long way, over the fruit's surface. But a worm could bore a tunnel through the apple, shortening the trip considerably. A wormhole in space is the same sort of tunnel; it is a shortcut from one part of the universe to another that reduces the travel time to just about zero...