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...Harvard is to emerge as an Ivy League contender, junior quarter-back Jay Snowden will need to provide timely passing to counterbalance the Crimson's potent ground attack. Although the 6-1, 200-pound Snowden possesses the physical tools, the jury is still out on his passing accuracy. Used primarily as an option quarterback in two-point conversion situations last season, Snowden quickly gained the respect of his teammates, who seemed equally comfortable with him as with Ferrara...
...durable, not to mention increasingly resistant to heat and cold. Even better, especially from the seller's standpoint, the rapid improvements can make relatively new equipment seem outmoded. Tents, once made of canvas or nylon, are now composed of fiber glass and aluminum, materials that have shaved a pound and a half from the average tent weight in the past five years. Ranging in price from $200 to $900, today's high-tech tents often feature near-vertical walls, gear lofts, "mud rooms" and windows for star gazing...
NORFOLK, Virginia: Nyla, the Virginia Zoo's only hippopotamus, died of a bowel blockage on Sunday after she ate a racquetball tossed into her pen by a visitor. Zookeepers were mystified by Nyla's death until an autopsy of the 4,300-pound hippo showed that she had a 2-inch rubber ball blocking her intestinal passageway. Though authorities knew the hippo was suffering some kind of obstruction, they did not perform surgery, fearing she would die during the procedure. Nyla, 31, had lived at the zoo for more than 20 years after spending her youth as part...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Tiny golden flecks in a 4.5 pound rock that tumbled out of space into an Antarctic ice field 13,000 years ago have yielded what may be the most significant planetary find in decades. After studying the Martian meteorite for two years, NASA and Stanford University scientists say they have discovered signs of life on Mars. President Clinton immediately announced a "space summit" in November to set strategy for exploring the finding. Said Clinton: "I am determined the American space program will put its full intellectual power and technological prowess behind the search for further evidence of life...
...half-size, 67-ft. prototype of the VentureStar called the X-33 is scheduled to fly in 1999, the finished craft in 2006. NASA and Lockheed claim that the innovations will shrink the shuttle's price-per-payload-pound from $10,000 to $1,000, slash repair and inspection costs and reduce turnaround time from weeks to days. Goldin envisions fleets of VentureStars launching satellites, hauling material back and forth to space stations and ferrying tourists into orbit. "Many people have aspirations of going into space," he says. "They should be able to live those...