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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...stands little chance of ending the political violence that has left nearly 9,000 people dead this year. But the Salvadorans at least made peace last week with neighboring Honduras, eleven years after their brief but bloody "soccer war" (so called because its immediate cause was a riotous football match between the two national teams). In a sort of prelude to the official treaty signing, the two national teams met on the soccer field twice last month and, diplomatically enough, traded 2-1 victories. Most Salvadorans seemed to welcome the games and the treaty as symbols of the peace they...
...years ago. Foreseeing a day when oil would run out and other fossil fuels would become scarce, he suggested placing two giant arrays of solar cells, each about half the size of Manhattan, 22,300 miles above the earth in geosynchronous orbit; there the structures' orbital speed would match the planet's rotation, thus holding the solar powerhouses over the same spot on the ground. Bathed in almost perpetual sunshine, the cells, like those already used to power weather and communications satellites, would convert the sun's energy into electricity, which would then be beamed to earth...
Although Lisa Harrison lost a grueling match to Bowdoin's number-one player, the other six Crimson racquetwomen breezed to 3-0 triumphs for a 6-1 victory and a perfect 4-0 mark...
Typical of the day's action was Jackie Corrigan's match at number two. The sophomore's corner shots, drop shots, soft serves and hard serves kept Bowdoin's Sue McCabe off balance. McCabe could only say "nice" after almost every point, complimenting Corrigan's multifaceted game...
Each Harrison point in the fourth game evoked loud applause from Hemenway fans, as they watched Tong refuse to yield. Harrison came back from a 14-10 deficit to tie the game, but Tong took the tiebreaker and the match...