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Before the encounter, Astronaut Carr spotted a puzzling red color in the comet's tail. That may mean that Kohoutek has more moisture than most comets, for this tint suggests concentrations of hydrogen and oxygen, the two components of water. In other respects, Kohoutek's twin tails-one composed of dust particles, the other of glowing gases -seem to be developing normally. As the comet began its hairpin turn round the sun, the dust tail blown by the slight pressure of sunlight continued to trail behind. But the plasma tail, interacting with the solar wind, moved...
...grope slowly back down to shelter below the timberline in the shimmering darkness after watching the sunset will never argue that what they have just witnessed was a most spectacular scene. For the few fleeting moments while the sun sets, the whole mountain is bathed in a fiery red tint, and all who sit atop the mountain will no doubt return again and again to be a part of Adams for those few moments...
Says Amnon Rubenstein, 41, a Sabra who is dean of the Tel Aviv University Law School: "For me, as for my friends, our standing as natives of Israel crowned us with a tint of nobility. We were the first generation of the deliverance, Hebrew children who did not know what anti-Semitism was. We were tanned, cheeky and free-the diametrical opposite of the Diaspora child, who was pale, white and frightened...
...maybe its a good thing for Harvard to plan on opening with two wins. It gives the team spirit, builds fan interest, but more importantly it's entering to watch a team win, and it's much more rewarding to travel through the Ivy League contests without the tint of competitive realism. And, therefore, for the Freshman Class, I salute you Holy Cross and Northeastern, martyrs to Ivy League Security...
...maybe its a good thing for Harvard to plan on opening with two wins. It gives the team spirit, builds fan interest, but more importantly it's entertaining to watch a team win, and it's much more rewarding to travel through the Ivy League contests without the tint of competitive realism. And, therefore, for the Freshman Class, I salute you Holy Cross and Northeastern, martyrs to Ivy League Security...