Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Murden was granted a spot on the all-expense-paid trip by a Canadian travel company, which organized and funded the expedition...
Expect Harvard to hold onto its number-one spot a little longer than the Saints--the Crimson's perfect record won't be challenged until January 31, when Harvard travels to New Haven, Conn., to play Yale...
...months ago in Connecticut, a woman was arrested for attempting to place a bomb under the parking spot of the president of the U.S. Surgical Corporation, which experiments on dogs to create surgical staples. ALF reportedly sent a Cambridge University researcher, who heads the physiology department, a potentially lethal letter bomb...
...renting an apartment in that tan building on Shoreham Drive, consider the effect on property values of Diane Linkletter's 1969 suicide leap from the sixth floor after a bad LSD trip. Your friendly Realtor might not mention that the brown house on Benedict Canyon Drive was the spot where George Reeves, TV's Superman, "fired a speeding bullet into his brain." Or that the large house with the armor-plated front door was Bugsy Siegel's place, where the gangster died in a hail of gunfire...
...idea of wormholes comes directly from the accepted concepts of general relativity. In that theory, Einstein argued that very massive or dense objects distort space and time around them. One possible distortion is in the form of a tube that can lead anywhere in the universe -- even to a spot billions of light-years away. The name wormhole comes about by analogy: imagine a fly on an apple. The only way the fly can reach the apple's other side is the long way, over the fruit's surface. But a worm could bore a tunnel through the apple, shortening...