Word: spheres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fishermen have been hauling up lobsters and crabs with gaping holes in their shells and fish with rotted fins and ulcerous lesions. Last year's oyster haul in Chesapeake Bay was the worst ever; the crop was decimated by dermo, a fungal disease, and the baffling syndrome MSX (multinucleate sphere...
What they "see" is astounding. Far from being just a featureless sphere of molten iron, the core has a surface that is apparently studded with mountains and riddled with depressions that may be filled with lower-density fluid that forms the equivalent of oceans. There may even be a bizarre kind of rain: showers of iron particles that sprinkle down on the core. And all of this takes place in a region whose temperature is perhaps as hot as the surface...
...women's issues should not be treated as part of a separate sphere, located in the Quad, which affects only those who choose to belong to Radcliffe groups. Harvard has a dual responsibility: one, to prove its committment to the women it has admitted by sponsoring services for them; and two, to pull in women alongside men--to teach, to speak and to show that they can be equally successful. If Radcliffe is responsible for the first duty, it is unlikely Harvard will take the second very seriously...
...Kremlin's Palace of Congresses for a seven-course feast of caviar, pheasant, grouse and other delicacies. After exchanging toasts with the capitalists, the Soviet leader described perestroika as an "invitation" to a business partnership with the West. Said he: "New thinking should, at long last, enter the sphere of economic relations...
Last week, in an apparent effort to defuse the issue, Pravda carried a large black-and-white photo of the SS-20. The accompanying story spoke of an "enormous, dull green cocoon with a blunted half sphere . . . a belly full of fuel, its sleepy snoozing head, where the explosive is concealed." Like earlier photos provided by the Soviets, the Pravda snapshot showed the canister encasing the SS-20, not the missile itself. The article, said a Western diplomat, "is of more literary than military value." And the West is still waiting for that photo...