Word: cosmically
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Carl Sagan, by a long cosmic mile...
...actually constitutes a luxury (Voltaire holding that it is anything above a necessity), or a rare defense: "Give us the luxuries of life and we will dispense with its necessities" (John Lothrop Motley). Still, history's high livers have been accused of every imaginable sin: active, cardinal, political, cosmic, original...
...team co-captain Marc Chapus, who clicked into warp drive and came up with a new Harvard record of 48.5 seconds, the sprinters swept the event and left the Bruin contenders cleaning the cosmic dust out of their eyes. Sprinters Bennett Midlo and Kim Stevens arrived at the tape shortly after Chapus to claim the impressive times of 50.2 and 50.3 seconds, respectively...
...showing scars from the millennial pounding of meteorites and possibly comets, as well as cracks from their own version of earthquakes. One pair of little moons travel in the same orbit within the rings of Saturn. They look like broken teeth and may be remains of some relatively recent cosmic carnage: two halves of a larger satellite that split apart in collision with another celestial body...
...touchy-feely school" was a recruitment plus. As Chancellor Robert Sinsheimer puts it, "The image developed that Santa Cruz was a place to come and sort of 'lay back' in the redwoods." Today, though, the most popular undergraduate major at U.C.S.C. is not Zen Buddhism or cosmic consciousness but biology. Only 4% of the students have opted for do-it-themselves interdisciplinary majors...