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...Olympus Mons picture is actually not a single photo but a mosaic of small ones. Mechanical shutters on the Viking cameras snap a stream of images that are broken into their constituent colors by a series of filters. Eventually an electronic beam scans the resulting image, translates it into tiny electrical impulses (8.7 million per photo) and sends them to earth...
This land "of delicate, delectable emptiness," named for a vanished biblical kingdom, is also rife with American influence. Racial mixing can produce beautiful results; cultural miscegenation tends toward ludicrous juxtapositions. The snap of bubble gum is heard in the Koran school. Fashionably oversize sunglasses are worn by women in purdah while their denimed daughters in platform shoes kick up the dust in the streets of Istiqlal, the capital. Down in the slums the click of cal abashes and the muezzin's call to prayer compete with an alien rhythm, "with words, repeated in the tireless ecstasy of religious chant...
...tenth reunion class, according to the Herald, the Class of 1924, showed up dressed in Bavarian costume, right down to the Tyrolean hats. The Boston Herald reported that "because the doctor had traveled 3,000 miles there was a Harvard version of the goose step, executed with as much snap as unsteady feet could muster ....An Americanized approximation of the Nazi salute replaced the hand shake...
...Freshmen may obtain help from their Expos preceptors, and all students can get psychological counselling and friendly advice from Room 13, the Bureau of Study Counsel, and UHS psychologists; however, there is no place for students to get advice specifically about their writing--about style, grammar, technical methods to snap out of writer's block, or help with a specific paper. Counselors at the above organizations and many students have expressed the desire for a service similar to the Hilles Writing Center that was shut down at the end of the 1977-78 academic year. The Center provided free, unpressured...
Wilson broke in on the right wing, but his snap shot was stopped by the still stage-frightened Lau. The rebound bounced on the left to Bedard, who fed the puck back to Don O'Brien on the point. O'Brien, who scored the short-handed goal in overtime to win the opener at Watson Rink last season, would be denied this time--but the rebound of the slap shot would...