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These tests will allow Martian soil samples to incubate longer in order to give any microbes present a better chance to grow. The experiments will be run at temperatures closer to the frigid levels that prevail on Mars. Also, in a search for life that may have burrowed deeper into the Martian soil to escape ultraviolet radiation bombarding the surface, one of the landers will try to dig 30.5 centimeters (1 foot) deep for a soil sample. Explains Klein: "We want to play out our whole set of cards before we make our best judgment on the question of life...
...think it means that basically a one-man, one-vote provision should prevail, with mutual respect for majority and minority elements in the society. And this should be our ultimate goal. How rapidly it can be achieved is still to be determined, and I hope that it can be achieved by peaceful means...
...dorm has suddenly become such a "bed of roses." But the various theories explaining the dorm's new-found popularity all return to a single fact: the decision to house women in Pennypacker has produced an environment radically different from the football-and-dirty-limericks atmosphere that used to prevail there...
...they might, the Pennypacker residents cannot turn every night into a party. Yet a more relaxed mood seems to prevail even when the students head back to their books. "There just doesn't seem to be the same tension before hour exams--people don't sit around thinking a C on a mid-term is going to keep them out of law school," Carl F. Muller '73, a veteran proctor, notes...
They are both leaders of repressive regimes, where press censorship and other violations of civil rights prevail...