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...faculty elected Professor of English and American Literature and Language Daniel G. Donoghue, Associate Professor of History Ellen Fitz- Patrick, professor of Fine Arts Joseph L.Koerner, Assistant Professor of Psychology CynthiaF. Moss, Associate Professor of History Susan G.Pedersen, Gray Professor of Systematic BotanyDonald H. Pfister and Loeb Associate Professor ofthe Social Sciences Mary C. Waters...
Many of these people claim to have encountered small, hairless, large-eyed gray creatures, which kidnapped them and in many cases stole sperm and egg samples. The book, published last April, focuses on 13 specific alleged alien encounters...
...Thousands upon thousands of infantrymen packed into 1,500 boxy, flat-bottomed landing craft called Higgins boats churned toward shore. The weather had cleared, as predicted, but the wind still kicked up heavy waves that made most of the troops violently seasick. As the coastline appeared in the gray, misty light, the soldiers, each laden with almost 70 lbs. of wet battle gear, jumped neck-deep into the waves and scrambled ashore...
...tent. Two hours later, before first light, Thron was standing outside the tent, rain running down the back of his neck. After perhaps five minutes, he heard a short, musical, descending call -- the "keer" of a marbled murrelet. Huge, dark shapes began to coalesce in the lightening gray: the enormous trunks of redwoods and Douglas firs. By full light, Thron had tallied 23 calls from murrelets. In this April nesting season, these smallish, fast-flying seabirds trade chores in a quick exchange at dawn. The parent freed of egg-sitting duty arrows off at 55 m.p.h. for Humboldt...
...Haitian side. Those numbers have fueled flourishing cross-border smuggling ever since the trade ban was placed on Haiti last October in hopes of forcing the defiant military to allow President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to return. Last week President Clinton's new envoy to Haiti, William Gray III, won a promise from the Dominican Republic's aging President Joaquin Balaguer to seal the border. But with millions of gallons in reserve, Haiti's army Chief of Staff, Brigadier General Philippe Biamby, told friends confidently that the military could "hang on without much trouble...