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Earlier this year the "Bermuda Shoot" prize was withheld from senior Mark Blasetti, a varsity football player, for the same reasons that prevented Brown from receiving his tickets...
Last fall the mountain known in Tibet as Chomolungma, or Goddess Mother of the World, and in the West as Everest permitted itself to be climbed by 33 people, withheld permission (in the form of benign weather) from a much larger number and killed nine climbers. Are those good odds or bad? A flatlander's question, an observer decides, after asking it of Stacy Allison and Peggy Luce; to mountaineers, the answer is a shrug. The odds are the odds. Allison, a contractor and house framer from Portland, Ore., and Luce, a bicycle messenger from Seattle, members...
...different study, which would have answered his question but again was turned down. The DOE wrote back that release of this information "could reasonably be expected to cause damage to the national security." The DOE now has more detailed safety assessments, but these too are being withheld...
...small misstep for a technician and an expensive setback for the next mission of the space shuttle Discovery. Last week a hapless worker, whose name has been withheld to protect him from humiliation, tripped on the tail of his lab coat and piled into the exhaust nozzle of a space rocket that is to ferry an important communications satellite into orbit next February. The accident caused a crack in the heat-resistant carbon nozzle that was too serious to be fixed with a simple patch, and NASA will have to replace the entire first stage of the expensive rocket. Total...
...candidate or remained undecided. Several that did endorse, including the New York Times and Dukakis' hometown Boston Globe, voiced uneasiness about both men. And in a striking setback for Dukakis, the liberal Washington Post, which had endorsed every Democratic candidate for President starting with George McGovern in 1972, withheld its support from both contenders...