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Harvard picked up speed and went about dismantling the Rocket defense. Captain and middle hitter Katherine Hart had eleven kills and eleven digs over the entire match, finishing with a .250 hitting average...
...exchanging e-mail," Sperry says. "Now we can broadcast live lectures over streaming media. It's like a real classroom environment. But it's not going to be satisfying on a 28K modem." Once you've enrolled in a course, getting the most out of it isn't rocket science, says instructor Davis. "Just do the work. If you paid only $30 for it and if no one's going to notice if you don't show up, it's easy to lose your motivation after the first couple of weeks," Davis says. "But stick with...
...entrance to the Churchill Northern Studies Centre, a base for investigations of regional climate change, a rusting rocket is a mute reminder of the complex's earlier life as part of defenses against Soviet nuclear attack. That threat never materialized, and now, belatedly, scientists venture from the base to study a threat that has materialized but against which no adequate defense has been mounted. Despite the danger that climate change poses, the resources currently devoted to studying this problem--and combatting it--are inconsequential compared with the trillions spent during the cold war. Twenty years from now, we may wonder...
DIED. ROBERT GILRUTH, 86, aeronautical engineer, rocket booster in the early days of the U.S. space program and director of the Johnson Space Center during the Apollo moon landings; in Charlottesville, Va. As director, he oversaw 25 manned space flights...
...Creme de la Mer was invented by Max Huber in the 1960s to treat his own rocket-fuel burns. According to Estee Lauder, which owns the product, his formula consisted of fermenting a seaweed broth to the prerecorded gurglings of previous batches. Lauder researchers don't know why the sounds make a difference, but without them, they contend, the cream loses its potency...