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...planet DQN 1196, and they decide to use them for a violent rampage against their Klingon enemies. With interstellar war imminent, the Federation intervenes, offering to act as an intermediary. The Enterprise becomes the host for delegations from both sides, transporting them to the planet to discover the origin of the weapons...

Author: By Michael Berke, | Title: The Final Frontier Gets Proton Torpedoed | 2/21/1989 | See Source »

Scientists have been able only to theorize about the origin of pulsars, those superdense, fast-spinning celestial objects that appear to blink on and off as % often as every millisecond. Now the mystery seems to be solved. Last week an international team of astronomers announced that they had detected a pulsar emerging from the murky dust clouds left over from Supernova 1987A, a giant star that exploded about 170,000 light-years from earth and was first seen two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cosmic Birth: First look at a young pulsar | 2/20/1989 | See Source »

...consider the F.M.L.N.'s proposal had a twofold purpose: first, to let U.S. Latin allies know that the Bush Administration is taking a fresh look at Central America. Second, to signal to congressional opponents of the Reagan policy that Bush will consider any new option, no matter the origin. "Getting the edge, in Central America especially," says Baker, "requires a bipartisan approach, and that requires our maintaining the moral high ground. Nothing is going to get accomplished down south without Congress being on board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing for the Edge | 2/13/1989 | See Source »

...letters department, and her staff of nine. Reader reaction ranges from the whimsical (a man from Fairport, N.Y., responded to a story on how disposable packaging contributes to air pollution by writing directly on a McDonald's container) to the intensely curious (a subscriber asked about the origin of a quilt that appeared in a photograph of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's tent). Readers have even asked us to track down people in TIME pictures who resemble long- lost college roommates (the resemblance is almost always just that). After we reported on the 100th birthday of Esperanto, readers tested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From the Publisher: Feb 13 1989 | 2/13/1989 | See Source »

Free Enterprise Dept.: If you have been wondering about the mysterious banner hanging from Holworthy Hall that reads "The Giant Sloth--The Legend Continues," it is the brainchild of Winthrop House resident Randy K. Toth '90. The giant sloth, a now extinct species that gained fame in Darwin's Origin of Species, slept 22 hours per day and woke only to eat. Believing that the somnolent creature is an appropriate mascot for some Harvard students, Toth decided to launch a Giant Sloth Movement...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Post-Reagan Blues | 2/11/1989 | See Source »

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