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...beliefs of most scientists, but his political instincts were more right. Particularly at the local level, the creationists represent strong popular feeling. In Dallas, school officials recommended that teachers use books that teach "two models" of the origin of life and the earth, Darwinian and creationist. In Anchorage, ninth-grade teachers have been ordered to skip the sections in history texts dealing with evolution, at least until the school board can provide additional material on divine creation...
Pitt finished second with 771 points. Penn State was third with 599, and the Harvard copped ninth with 192 points--four spots higher than last year's 13th place finish...
...women's squash team, in what senior Ellie Cunningham termed "essentially a warm-up match for Princeton," notched their ninth straight dual-match victory yesterday with a 6-1 triumph at the University of Pennsylvania...
...Gildea was busy setting the pool on fire in the 500-yd. freestyle. Gildea, who suffered a severe knee injury last summer and has spent most of the season recuperating from subsequent surgery, swam the best 500 freestyle of her Harvard career to win the consolation-finals-and-place ninth overall. Her time of 5:03, 98 was very close to Liz Kelly's University record...
After eight international tours that have covered IS nations, tumultuous motorcades and clamoring multitudes have become familiar when Pope John Paul II is on the road. But the papal procession across the Philippines last week-his ninth foreign journey and his first to Asia-also displayed ample elements of stagecraft along with spontaneous outpourings of devotion...