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...Pasadena, Calif., Cade McNown threw for 205yards and a TD and ran for another score as theBruins (3-0, 1-0 Pac-10) ran their school-recordwining streak to 13 games...
...therefore pleased to announce that he is being officially recognized as a celestial object. On Aug. 8 the International Astronomical Union voted to change the name of the asteroid previously known as 1992WY4 to the 7829 Jaroff. Eleanor Helin, an astronomer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., who discovered the asteroid in 1992, recommended the name to honor Jaroff's "well-researched, insightful articles and essays on scientific subjects" and his efforts to "draw attention to the issue of NEOs [near earth objects] and the potentially catastrophic consequences for our civilization should a large comet or asteroid strike...
...dealt with adolescent behavior for nearly three decades, I have found that it is not very difficult to distinguish between those who are truly sorry for their misbehavior and those who are only sorry they got caught. Most other Americans can tell the difference too. JOHN CAPANNA Pasadena, Calif. The simple words of the Rev. Jim Casy in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath provide meaningful commentary on the Clinton-Lewinsky matter: "There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of the same thing. And some...
...giant: a big, gaseous sphere more than twice as massive as Jupiter and some 450 light-years from Earth. Susan Terebey, an astronomer at the Extrasolar Research Corp. in Pasadena, Calif., discovered it quite by accident while studying a cloud of gas in the constellation Taurus where a lot of stars are being born. When Terebey and her colleagues looked closely at one double-star system, they noticed a long wisp of gas trailing off into space, and at the end of the wisp, a tiny dot of light...
...before we hit a technological iceberg. Are there enough lifeboats for a financial Titanic? What happens when there is a weeklong electrical-power failure? Will victims of mother nature be left to sink because they could not make a simple electronic transaction to buy bread and milk? HEATHER MCQUAY Pasadena...