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...swept away from the sun by the pressure of solar radiation. Sunlight reflecting off the tail produces the fiery effect. The second, bluish appendage is called the plasma or ion tail. It is formed when gases from the comet's nucleus become charged by solar radiation and then react with the solar wind, which is a constant stream of charged particles that emanate from the sun and carry its magnetic field. While the plasma tail does not reflect sunlight, it is visible because of the light emitted by some of its gases...
Sponsored by Harvard's International Relations Council, the conference aims to teach students how to reconcile different opinions, said Jonathan M. Levine '86 of Leverett House, the conference's secretary general. Levine also said the conference tries to teach students not only how countries react but also how to apply this knowledge to their own lives...
...scores of movies in which America's war against Fascism was presented as a struggle between good and evil. The loss of German and Japanese life in them is in many cases greater than the loss of Russian and Vietnamese life in Rambo. Yet I've never heard anyone react with moral indignation against these simplistic portrayals of what was the most humanly costly war ever known to man. Even rarer is the person who would view them as dangerous...
...just beginning to relax and enjoy my drink when the plane lurched violently up and to the right, causing the man next to me to dump his Bloody Mary in my lap. I did not have time to scream or react in any way before the plane jerked down to the left, causing a stewardess to fall across the row of seats in front...
...appropriateness of the dean's sparse remarks warrants underscoring. The blossoming of young love doesn't justify fundamental changes in the prefect program, and shouldn't even come as a surprise. To react to it in either fashion would be naive...