Word: space
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hazebrook nuclear device that was detonated some 700 ft. below the Nevada desert last Feb. 3 was puny by most measures. Equal to about 40 tons of TNT, a mere .2% as strong as the Hiroshima blast, it would be feeble in a missile warhead. But in space, packed into the closed end of a stubby barrel and tamped down with hundreds of thousands of metal pellets, the low-yield weapon could wreak havoc. Unlike a standard nuclear explosion, which would vaporize the pellets and barrel, this one would spray the pellets through space at speeds up to 100 times...
...past five years, the number of applications for these parking spaces has been steadily increasing, Smith says. He attributed this to the fact that the Harvard lots provide 24-hour security and a guaranteed space, while parking with a Cambridge sticker or choosing the illegal option provides neither...
...students are the gambling type, they can also try to find parking spaces and dispense with either city permits or Harvard-owned lots. Some students have a much easier time finding a parking space...
Jennifer M. Walser '90 found a space freshman year by sheer luck. She brought a car to Harvard during freshman week and left it at the Swiss Chalet Inn near the Alewife T stop for several days. When she returned to get it, she did not have a ticket and figured that the owners of the inn had not noticed it. Walser says that she ended up leaving the car at the inn for most of the year...
Students with cars and professors for parents can sometimes use their parent's space. Leif F. Hutchinson '90 says he kept a car in his father's parking space behind the Jefferson Labs for use on weekends...