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...game will interfere with final exams at most Ivy League schools. But for seniors at Harvard, which starts winter break on December 20 and holds exams in mid-January, the scheduling of the game is not expected to create any serious academic conflicts...
...biosphere, the envelope of life surrounding earth. Oxygen levels have remained at roughly 21% of the atmosphere for 200 million years, Lovelock asserts, whereas they should have fluctuated wildly, according to some geochemical models of the atmosphere. Were oxygen levels to rise above 25%, spontaneous fires would break out; if they dropped below 15%, many higher life-forms would suffocate. Climatologist Tyler Volk of New York University argues that life controls earth's temperature as well. In a study recently published in the British journal Nature, he and colleague David Schwartzman asserted that, without the cooling effects of living things...
...military terms, the impact of lifting the cease-fire remains unclear. Throughout the cease-fire, government troops continued to break up the contras' support network in the provinces, and rebels staged sporadic attacks against the army. Now those occasional engagements could escalate. At least 2,000 contra guerrillas are inside Nicaragua, and there is little doubt that more have been infiltrating the country during recent weeks. On Friday the Sandinista army said it had begun offensive operations against the rebels in nine of the country's 16 provinces...
...whose mandate included the reopening of the Katyn case. Since then, the Soviets have delayed a formal verdict. But officials, eager to clear the air before Polish Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki's arrival in Moscow later this month, want to hasten a judgment. Applauding Gorbachev for making a "historic break with Stalinism," Brzezinski offered a face-saving way out. "Many Soviet people were also victims of Stalinism," he said. "So the acknowledgment of these crimes should lead to reconciliation, not to hatred...
They'll get to look at the Elis in New Haventonight--and they'll be looking at the inside of abus for much of the next few months. This season'sschedule puts Harvard on the road for eight of its11 games before winter break. The pay-off? TheCrimson will be home throughout January readingperiod