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...provide such an alternative I do not question; indeed, I fail to see how responsible intellectual discussion of the problems facing a college or university can harm that college or university. But over the past two years. The Dartmouth Review has often degenerated into little more than a thin veil for personal attacks, racist comments, and an offensive, satiric sarcasm, thereby belying the principles of the very conservatism they claim to espouse and causing deep divisions within the Dartmouth community as a whole...
Much of their information comes from an unmanned Pioneer spacecraft. Since it began orbiting Venus three years ago, it has studied the planet's weather by photographing changing cloud patterns and lifted its veil with a radar beacon, mapping 93% of Venus' shrouded surface. Though the planet has continent-size land masses topped by a mountain a mile higher than Everest, it does not seem to be rent by the earth's major mountain builder: continental drift. Rather, the key tectonic process appears to be volcanism, accompanied by lightning, flows of lava and an otherworldly version...
...recent years, the Institute has been the subject of intense speculation in newspapers and among researchers. Prior to Hughes' death in 1976, almost nothing was known about it. Since then, however, the veil of mystery has begun to slip. It appears that in the 1950's, Hughes conceived the idea of a center for medical research where elite researchers could gather to pursue medical advances. He later revised his plan and decided to finance individual researchers already affiliated with universities. In this manner, funds from the Hughes Institute could go directly to research instead of building and equipment maintenance...
...women who once wore the latest in Western fashion are turning to Islamic dress. Many of them cover their heads with either a long scarf or a knitted "helmet" that descends from the head to the shoulders. Others shield the entire face, leaving only two eye openings in the veil. Despite temperatures that commonly range up to 95° F, the women wear gloves and stockings...
...took 40 yards of pure silk taffeta, 100 yards of crinoline netting, and some old Carrickmacross lace given by Queen Mary to the Royal School of Needlework and used for the bodice. For borrowed, the bride wore a diamond tiara from the Spencer family collection, clasping her silk tulle veil, and a pair of diamond-drop earrings lent by her mother Frances Shand Kydd. Blue was a bow sewn into the waistband. For luck, there was a tiny 18-karat gold horseshoe tucked away in the voluminous skirts. The anxious Emanuels were stationed just inside the entrance of St. Paul...