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Other moons examined by Voyager 1 were far less shy in revealing themselves. Tiny Mimas is dominated on one side by a large crater that stares out like the ominous billboard eye in The Great Gatsby. Had the object that caused the crater been much larger, its impact might have shattered Mimas. Its other side is heavily pockmarked with small craters, indicating that it is a relatively old celestial body. Yet Mimas' companion Enceladus displays a less dramatic topography. Scientists speculate that some mysterious heat source, perhaps created by gravitational stresses, has softened its icy surface and smoothed...
...U.S.S.R. is not prepared to be a bull in the corrida of Madrid," declared Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. That pronouncement served as a dour keynote for the 35-nation Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe that convened in the Spanish capital last week. The object of the long-scheduled conference was to review the members' compliance with the 1975 Helsinki accords on military security, economic cooperation and human rights. But throughout, it was clear that the Soviets had every intention of blocking any proceedings devoted to their own human rights record or their Afghanistan invasion...
Mike Durgin, all 6 feet, 4 inches and 275 pounds of him, believes. After three years as a varsity starter, three years as an offensive tackle, three years as the Crimson's felicitous combination of the irresistable force and the immovable object, three years as student of Harvard coach Joe Restic's sophisticated Multiflex offense, and three years laboring in the obscurity that shrouds anonymous linemen, Mike Durgin believes...
Landolfi said one policy the inmates object to--rectal searches for contraband whenever they enter or leave their cells--"may be humilitating, but it's something we have to do, based on past problems." Prisoners are also protesting strip searches of visiting family members suspected of carrying contraband, he said...
...rather strange Eleventh Commandment. But I felt sure the Pope was not that stupid. He isn't. The full text of his talk is a magnificent treatise on the dignity of the human person. No woman, says the Pope, should be viewed only as a sex object. Not even your wife...