Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...THERE, TRYING TO GET IN touch with us, his message may well be received first in a quiet rural setting 30 miles northwest of Boston. There, atop a hill overlooking a snow-covered apple orchard and the frozen remnants of a pumpkin patch, a dish-shaped antenna, 84 ft. across, faces skyward, attuned to the murmurings of the cosmos...
...BETA (for Billion-channel Extra-Terrestrial Assay) telescope sweeps a circular swath through the heavens, elevated at a slightly different fixed angle from the horizon with each successive turn. During each circuit it captures radio waves reaching Earth at frequencies between 1400 and 1720 megahertz--a broad but relatively "quiet" region of the radio spectrum. "In the 1960s we were looking in a few niches and hoping the extraterrestrials had put their jewels there," says astronomer Frank Drake, who launched the first SETI project in 1960. "They didn't. Now we are doing it right...
Ezra W. Reese '97, who is producing "Princess Ida" this April, said spring casting has been particularly quiet this year because casting began immediately after students returned from intersession and HRDC did not had enough time to publicize effectively...
...experimental theater coordinator for the HRDC Executive Board, Rob S. Sanders '98, agreed that Common Casting had been quiet this semester but said that he expected "tons of people" to show up last night...
...person, however, Natchez is not the slick, hyper-dressed stage presence of Skavoovie; quiet and personable, he doesn't seem that different from any other teenager, slightly anxious at his first solo interview...