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...historical area known as Palestine was originally bounded to the west by the Mediterranean Sea and to the south by the Sinai Desert. To the north it included a sliver of Lebanon and to the east it stretched beyond the Jordan River. Today, Israel holds most of the territory...
Love and Will invites its readers to embark on an even more hazardous and painful course: to recover the lost sense of self by accepting the shadow of death. To May and the existentialists, life is a moving sliver of time between what was and what will be. Man, too, is ever in motion: a process rather than a product, of which all that can be said with any certainty is that it will one day end. But to this school it is the inevitability and awareness of death that defines life and liberates the human will...
Although only two per cent of the sun will be visible in Cambridge on March 7, this sliver will effectively block out the scientifically interesting portion of the sun, the outer corona. Therefore, in order to perform several experiments which require a total eclipse, scientists from around the world will be convening in southern Mexico...
...engine, the astronauts yawed their cone-shaped command module until its blunt end was forward and then plunged into the outer atmosphere at a speed of 24,629 m.p.h.-some 7,000 m.p.h. faster than re-entry speeds of orbital missions. Roaring down into the thickening atmosphere within a sliver of the planned angle of 6.43°, Apollo passed over Peking and Tokyo, the temperature of its heat shield rising...
...Yardlings were equally successful as they romped, 63:31. Harvard swept the freestyles at 50,200, and 500 yards, and also took the top two places, in the dive, individual medley, and butterfly. Victors for the Crimson were Andy Huff, Paul Horyitz, Phil Johnson, Dan Kobick, Dave Sliver, and Bob Taylor...