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...found it without a highly sensitive silicon-chip light detector called a charge-coupled device (CCD), used in place of a photographic plate. When the comet approaches for its hairpin swing around the sun in 1986, solar radiation will boil off volatile material, creating a glowing head and characteristic tail and perhaps another heavenly spectacle...
Harvard's encouraging performance yesterday comes right on the tail of a disappointing--but very well played--five set loss to MIT, one of the finest learns in the East. Also, last Saturday, the Crimson placed second in a UNH sponsored tournament...
...television, its electrical cord trailing in the dirt like a useless tail, its great eye blank in the midday sun, was sitting in the center of the playground. In a semicircle around it stood a dozen four-year-olds, their eyes glazed, staring intently at the dark screen. Three adults emerged from the adjacent schoolhouse and lifted the set into the back of a station wagon. As the car pulled away, several of the children rushed to the wire fence, pushed their outstretched hands through the loops, and cried plaintively: "Goodbye, Mr. TV. Goodbye...
Cegelis said the tail will be used to house offenders with 30-, 60-, or 90-day sentences, but added that Heneberry could approve the facility for prisoners with up to 30-month terms--the maximum sentence allowed for offenders in county correctional institutions...
...wearing helmets and pads. The fans are so tanked up on rum and cider they wouldn't notice an earthquake. The band is probably under the stands lighting firecrackers. It's the cheerleaders who will be the ones to get squashed. Talk about ruining the atmosphere for post-game tail-gaters...