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...Hurricane Georges rampaged through the Caribbean, Maldonado spent last week worrying about her family back home in Trujilllo Alto, Puerto Rico...

Author: By Tova A. Serkin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Georges Hits Home for Harvard Students | 9/29/1998 | See Source »

Although Puerto Rico wasn't hit as badly as the Dominican Republic, where the storm last week killed 125 people, the region around Maldonado's home was decimated...

Author: By Tova A. Serkin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Georges Hits Home for Harvard Students | 9/29/1998 | See Source »

According to the Harvard Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Web page (http://mc.harvard.edu/seti/), the search first began in 1978 with scientists listening to signals transmitted from a 1,000-foot dish in Arecibo, Puerto Rico...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOOKING FOR LIFE IN OUTER SPACE | 9/15/1998 | See Source »

Benzan, the son of immigrants from the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, is Latino, but also considers himself black...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Incumbent State Reps. Hope to Avoid Upset by Youthful Challengers | 9/14/1998 | See Source »

...same way flight controllers look for commercial airliners: with radar? Realizing that extremely powerful radar would be needed to bounce a signal off so distant a target, he called on Donald Campbell, the chief scientist at the world's largest radiotelescope, the 1,000-ft. dish at Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Campbell agreed to try, although he estimated that the power of the returned signal would be about a billionth of a watt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lost and Found in Orbit | 9/14/1998 | See Source »

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