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...last night's reception honoring AAA's tenth anniversary, students and alumni had the opportunity "to assess past performance, define present-day objectives and identify the goals for the future," said John Kim '87, co-president...
...lights lost by a scant tenth-of-a-second to the University of Pennsylvania on the rain-swollen Schuylkill River. Cornell finished third...
While there is some question whether this and several other of the earliest recorded sightings involved actual exploding stars, there is little doubt about the guest star of A.D. 185. "Second year of the Chung-p'ing reign period," reads an ancient Chinese text, "tenth month, day kuei-hai, a guest star appeared within nanmen. It was as large as half a mat; it was multicolored, and it scintillated. It gradually became smaller and disappeared in the sixth month of the year after next." The description, especially concerning the brightness and slow fade of the star, seems to confirm...
...before astrophysicists were able to fathom how the sun -- and thus the earth -- would die. Nonetheless, he was basically correct: first fire, then ice. The fire will not be an explosion like the one now brightening the Large Magellanic Cloud; the sun is thought to have only about a tenth of the mass necessary to become a Type II supernova and has no stellar companion to contribute the mass necessary to turn it into a Type I blast. But that will be of little comfort to whatever creatures exist on earth when the sun is in its death throes...
...study, published yesterday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that it would cost the nation $100 million to detect "fewer than one-tenth of 1 percent of HIVS-infected individuals" and that approximately 350 false positive and 100 false negative results would result nationwide...