Word: station
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) will purchase the former Gulf Station site from Harvard Real Estate (HRE) for $3 million, Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence announced yesterday at a meeting of the full Faculty...
...wanting to stand in the way of initiative, I let him lead the way. My grandparents' house backs up on an alley that leads to a commercial street, Ford Parkway. There we could find plenty of shops, a gas station and a mostly elderly clientele...
...started off with a captive audience. The man behind the counter in the gas station was busy, so we turned to an elderly man pumping gas. I had forgotten to coach Ari on how to introduce himself; what would...
Some of the benefits of 3-D graphics have more to do with science fiction than with science. At NASA's Ames Research Center, visitors who put on special computerized gloves and helmets can actually experience what it would be like to explore various 3-D worlds -- a space station orbiting the earth, for example, or the landscape of Mars. The gloves are equipped with magnetic position trackers and fiber-optic sensors that telegraph every movement of the hand directly to the machine. The helmet is equipped with a pair of stereoscopic TV projectors, one for each eye, that...
Early-morning commuter traffic clogged the intersection when the armored Cherokee station wagon eased to a halt at a red light in downtown San Salvador. A moment later a man darted forward, placed a bomb on the car roof, then fled just before the explosion. The driver and a bodyguard escaped with minor injuries. But the man in the back seat was killed. He was Attorney General Roberto Garcia Alvarado, the highest-ranking government official to be slain in a war that has claimed some 70,000 lives over the past nine years...