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Unless Harvard accedes to student demands, Harvard Square may once again become deserted. But don't hold your breath waiting for such a decision. As Danny Schecter, news director for radio station WBCN, pointed out in last Monday's teach-in at Sanders Theater, such reluctance to challenge corporations should be expected from a body called "The Corporation...
Instead of sweeping beams, the rival British MLS uses a sequence of signals broadcast along arrays of vertical and horizontal antennas. Just as a passenger on a railroad station platform hears a high-pitched whistle as the train approaches and a low-pitched one after it passes by, the approaching aircraft's computer senses an increase in frequency of the radio signals from the horizontal antennas when the aircraft is on one side of the electronic funnel's center line. When it is on the other, a drop in frequency occurs. A similar Doppler shift...
American high school and college soccer teams generally schedule fewer than two dozen games each season, while aspiring young stars in Europe may play 50 or more. Inexperienced coaches are also a problem. Says Cosmos Captain Werner Roth: "When I was young, a coach was someone with a station wagon and spare time, not someone with knowledge of the game." Too often, that is still true...
From Boston University's radio station, WBUR (90.9 FM) and Allison Acoustics of Natick, Mass., comes word of a new service catering to classical-music listeners. The Concertline (353-3810) gives up-to-date details and information on classical concerts in the Boston area--including performers, programs, locations and times of concerts...
More than a year in the planning, Illinois Masonic's alternative birthing center is a small, completely independent unit with two bedrooms, a nurses' station with rolltop desk, and a small lounge where family and friends can wait. Because no instruments or heavy drugs are used, only women who appear headed for normal births are admitted. But if there is trouble-for example, one woman's labor was unexpectedly difficult and required delivery by forceps and repair surgery-the patient can quickly be taken to the regular obstetrical unit only a few doors away. Not the least...