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...hour and fifteen minutes. In a span of time only slightly longer than the average undergraduate lecture, the visitors see a vast array of scattered and discreet images images of Harvard. For some students, a tour may be a pivotal factor in the final college decision. A sunny day or a friendly leader can make all the difference. Others may dismiss the tour as trivial and ephemeral and base their decision on more substantive factors...
...being run by scientists at the new Space Telescope Science Institute, housed at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. The data will be collected by some 380 institute researchers and computer technicians and will be used by scientists all over the world. Over the Hubble's expected 15-year life-span, teams of astronauts will shuttle to and from the telescope to service and upgrade...
...117A did not make the case for new technology. For one thing, the Pentagon admitted that when two of the fighters were used during the Panama invasion, their precision bombs missed their targets by several hundred yards. Moreover, an Air Force report released last week indicated that the life-span of the older B-52 bombers will extend well into the next century, reinforcing growing support in Congress for a drastic cut in the B-2 program -- or even killing it altogether...
...finals, wasn't able to get on track until the third period, when it outshot Wisconsin, 14-3. Still, the Red Raiders could muster only one third-period goal. The loss was the first in 20 games for Colgate goalie Dave Gagnon, who is 18-1-1 inthat span...
...much has been wrong this season anyway. Blockbuster survivors from prior years were joined last fall by four musicals and three plays that all seem securely established, and major new works by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Neil Simon and August Wilson are still to come. But in a five-day span leading into this week, the proverbial three hit shows materialized nonetheless, one after another, gladdening the Great White Way's chronic curmudgeons...