Word: skies
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...other building concerns that have long remained neglected. First-year dormitories need better lighting. As every year passes the need for a true student center with space for group offices and meetings is ever more evident. And it certainly would be nice to see a 175-foot sky crane above our decrepit excuse for an athletic center...
...SKY DIVING...
...Computer Geek Night (Colorado Springs Sky Sox): free admission for those named Chip or Mac or with the initials PC; look-alike contests for Dilbert, Bill Gates and Al Gore; a bad-mouse bonfire and free wrist and forearm massages...
Astronomers looking for black holes have long known that the deck is stacked against them. In order to find a heavenly body, sky gazers ordinarily take a straightforward approach, hoping simply to eyeball the object through a telescope. But black holes, which are formed by collapsed stars or compressed matter at the center of galaxies, are so dense that nothing--not even light--can escape their gravity. Last week, however, investigators at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., announced that they had at last seen direct evidence of a black hole in action...
...they don?t all fit together in a causal explanation," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "Flight plans aren?t usually that explicit. And the U.S. wasn?t sharing information on raids by stealth aircraft with its NATO allies. Pentagon thinking was that the Serbs had been filling the sky with anti-aircraft fire and unguided missiles, and they simply got lucky. There?s no doubt that information was being passed along to the Serbs, but it?s a long way from there to say that this is how the stealth fighter was downed." And that?s a pity...