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What NASA did not reckon with was the unexpected intensity of solar disturbances accompanying the current sunspot cycle. More sunspots have appeared than were anticipated, great magnetic storms and solar flares are raging on the sun, and more charged atomic particles-which make up the solar wind-are being hurled into space. The stronger solar wind heats the thin gases in the outer fringe of the earth's atmosphere, which causes them to expand outward into the orbit of Skylab. That increases the drag on the craft...
...Thirty years of refugee life and four fruitless wars have made the Palestinians feel they must cry out louder with more audible means to make their cause heard, and to exert pressure that will guarantee that any future-settlement will consider the Palestinian population as a primary factor to reckon with...
Shipping men reckon that McLean, who has a modest office in New York City, would like to run U.S. Lines with a minimum of interference from Washington. Some $44 million in U.S. Lines loans has been guaranteed by the Federal Government. "If McLean retired the loans," said one of his spokesmen, "he'd have a much freer hand in running the line. He just wants wheeling and dealing latitude...
...tennis team bagged its sixth straight victory Saturday, defeating Penn, 6-3, in Philadelphia, a sure sign that Harvard will be a force to reckon with in Eastern League tennis this spring...
...some declines in their IQ scores. But children who were seen at least occasionally by their real parents seemed far less troubled in their new settings. Conclude the researchers: "It is better for the child to have to cope with real parents who are obviously flawed ... than to reckon with fantasy parents who play an undermining role on the deeper level of the child's subconscious...