Word: similarities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...astronomical photos taken from the planet's surface. The ST's forte will thus be the sharpness of its pictures, which astronomers hope will help answer long-standing questions about the structures of distant galaxies and mysterious pinpoints of light called quasars, and about whether other stars have planets similar to earth...
...Hsia's insulting journalistic effort. If this official of The Crimson, a publication so prestigious as to warrant a feature aricle in the New England Monthly, could allow such an article to be printed, exactly how dangerously uninformed are those of a lower rank who oversee the publication of similar articles or editorials dealing with the minority community? Clearly, this is unacceptable...
...study currently under review by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) proposes a simple solution to the problem--building a fifth line on the outskirts of the city to connect outlying areas. Similar proposals for a "circumferential" transit route have been debated in Boston since...
Adults could be wrongly branded as well. Life- and medical-insurance companies might one day require that potential customers have their genes screened, presumably so that people likely to develop fatal or disabling diseases could be charged higher premiums, or possibly turned away. Insurers have already used a similar policy to avoid covering individuals at high risk for AIDS, a practice now banned in several states. Unless it is prohibited by law, employers could conceivably try to guarantee a healthy work force by asking job applicants to submit to genetic screening. Clearly, there is a potential for widespread discrimination against...
...results were surprising: after six weeks, the number of deaths and repeat heart attacks were similar for each group, a strong indication that there was no advantage in having angioplasty. The study's conclusions: angiography and angioplasty can be safely put off until patients show recurrent signs of a deficient blood supply to the heart muscle...