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...past the key has been continually lost and unauthorized duplicates have been made. Moreover, because students signed the key out under assumed names, officials could not trace the individuals responsible for the rule infractions...
...feel at home in vacuum, be unbothered by radiation, take advantage of weightlessness, get their energy from sunlight as green plants do on Earth. They will perform elaborate maneuvers in response to orders built into their brains, like the instincts of insects, which lead thoroughly successful lives without a trace of reason. Sometimes they will listen with sensitive radio ears for whispers of command from millions or hundreds of millions of miles away. Some of them will send tough-skinned projectiles down into hostile atmosphere and record what they report; some will land on distant planets and survey the landscape...
Menzel said that the satellite is visible only to observers in South Africa and nearby areas because it is circling the earth in an orbit synchronized with the earth's rotation. The orbit is tilted about 30 degrees to the equator which makes the satellite appear to trace a figure-eight once every 24 hours...
Schlesinger says "the difference between the two groups is probably at bottom a difference in temperament." He adds that the emotional origins of contemporary radical thought "lie in a profound dislike for what the critics regard as a suffocating consensus blanketing American life--a consensus which most of them trace to a refusal to confront the implications of nuclear...
Around the town, in an area not much larger than a small college campus, nearly half a million men died. Under the ceaseless shelling, whole companies sometimes disappeared without a trace. Even when the dead were found and buried, it sometimes did little to combat the pervasive smell of rotting human flesh. "The shells disinter the bodies, then reinter them," a young French soldier wrote, "chop them to pieces, play with them as a cat plays with a mouse...