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...mapped the invisible heat of the Milky Way. A small satellite called the plasma diagnostics package was suspended from the ship's giant remote arm to measure "ripples," or the wake that the shuttle causes in the earth's ionosphere. At several points, the shuttle fired its thrusters to poke temporary "holes" in the ionosphere, allowing radio astronomers based around the world to aim their telescopes through the gaps. Indeed, the experiments hummed along so well that NASA decided to extend the mission an extra...
...program like that might have saved a lot of trouble for the Darien, Ill., public-school system. Last October an eighth-grader who was allegedly harassing Joey Urban, now 14, wound up rupturing Joey's eardrum with a poke from a lollipop stick. The Urbans are suing, complaining that the attacker received only a three-day suspension. The school district says that the boys were friends and that the injury was an accident that occurred while they were roughhousing...
Andrew Laing ’08 was also very convincing as the overbearing government official Dr. Rance, whose dramatic conclusions and nonsensical interpretations and reinterpretations of various medical “theories” poke fun at the psychology of Freudian ideas...
Mitchell tells me he volunteered to review the animated Pokemon 2000 just to poke fun at the paper’s insistence on honorific titles...
Nobody’s future is guaranteed. Things happen. People get job offers in other countries, become pregnant accidentally, develop drinking problems, win the lottery, or accidentally poke their own eyes out while they’re waving the (small) diamonds on their engagement rings in their friends’ faces. Upon entering college, I would never have predicted that I’d end up in a two-year relationship at all, never have imagined everything that would happen to my original blocking group, and never have known that one night in the spring of junior year...