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...meantime, Lamar Alexander and Pat Buchanan have bumped up against a ceiling at 10%; Phil Gramm will try to hang on through the early races to reach his home turf in the Southern primaries on March 12. He parcels out his money dime by dime, flying around in rattletrap planes, wearing a beige wool coat he bought from a street vendor in Washington in 1979 and until recently sporting shabby shoes and a broken watch. Aides joke that they've thought the Senator would make one of them share a room with him if the local Super 8 gave...
Another concern is that some people have intersessions that are twice as long as their friends'. A friend of mine finished his exams on the 16th and took the next plane out to Mexico. I was stuck at school until the 25th finishing a philosophy final while he was sipping pina coladas on the beach; that hardly seems fair. This disparity in exam schedules makes it difficult to plan trips with one's friends, and it creates a climate in which it is difficult to work. In addition, it gives an incentive to plan one's classes around a particular...
...orbiting world's gravity should, for example, tug faintly on the star that is its sun, pulling it first this way, then that. If the plane of the planet's orbit is such that a star is being pulled first toward and then away from the Earth, the motion will cause light waves coming from the star to be squeezed together, then stretched apart--making the light look first a little bit bluer than it really is, then a little bit redder, then bluer again, and so on. These subtle color changes--examples of the so-called Doppler shift...
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, CUBA: 127 men and women, the last of the 29,000 Cuban refugees who had lived in tents at the American base in Guantanamo Bay, boarded a plane for Florida today. The refugees were picked up at sea by the U.S. Coast Guard as they floated on rafts, small boats and inner tubes toward the American coast in the summer of 1994. "The importantant thing about the exodus that summer is that Castro allowed it to happen," reports Caribbean bureau chief Cathy Booth. "If he did not, then no one would have been able to come...
...engine fighter was returning to Miramar Air Force near San Diego after flying to the Nashville International Airport where it was refueled. "The F-14's engine has long been underpowered and this may have contributed to this crash," notes defense correspondent Mark Thompson. "It is a very difficult plane to fly because of its engine design. There have been longstanding plans to improve the engine and this crash may accelerate that...