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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: M. Cagers Face UNH In First Home Game | 11/29/1988 | See Source »

Harvard is coming off a solid performance Saturday against Boston College. The Crimson had a seven-point halftime lead, but tired in the second half against the Eagles and fell short...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: M. Cagers Face UNH In First Home Game | 11/29/1988 | See Source »

...really frustrating with this type of game," MacDonald said. "We really wanted to score and put the game away. All around it was a solid effort...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: The Bear Fact: Icemen Roar, 10-1 | 11/29/1988 | See Source »

Another significant difference in the shuttle systems concerns the boosters. The U.S. orbiter is lifted by two recoverable solid rocket boosters and its own three main engines, a system designed exclusively for shuttle missions. Buran piggybacks on the l97-ft.-high Energia, the world's largest operational booster rocket -- a multipurpose powerhouse designed to lift shuttles or unmanned spacecraft weighing up to 100 tons. "Energia could be said to be a much smarter system than what we've got, since it could take anything up," says Seth Arenstein, editor of Soviet Aerospace magazine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Sunny Debut for Snowstorm | 11/28/1988 | See Source »

What many scientists do dispute, however, is whether the potential intellectual rewards are worth the cost -- especially given widespread fears that the SSC would rob funding from other research. "It's good science," says Princeton's Philip Anderson, a Nobel laureate for his work in solid-state physics, "but we can learn equally fundamental things in other areas of physics and with a lot less money." And while proponents say the SSC would spark a resurgence of national interest in research that would benefit all sciences, M.I.T. physicist Daniel Kleppner fears that smaller projects simply are not glamorous enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Controversial Prize for Texas | 11/28/1988 | See Source »

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