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...camera equipped with an advanced M.I.T.-designed charge-coupled device, the totally automated, computerized operation quickly began discovering more asteroids and comets, large and small, than all the other groups combined. Getting further into the spirit of the game, the Air Force has deployed a second asteroid-hunting scope, is lending another to astronomers and musing, unofficially, about launching a fleet of microsatellites for even better asteroid detection...
...spirit of liberalism, students who did decide to join wanted to widen the scope of membership to include a greater number and range of people. Newell Flather '61, who served on the selection committee as vice president of the Pudding, says the application process in the early 1960s was simple. When the committee went over applications, they established a rule: "If someone on the committee knew them and liked them, they would be elected. If someone of the committee didn't like them, they would not be elected unless there was a groundswell of support...
Hennessy's colleagues at Stanford say the technology-minded provost will now need to broaden his scope...
...Government Department announced Tuesday possible changes to the curriculum that would cut the number of required courses by one, lengthen the sophomore tutorial and narrow the scope of the concentration...
...scope of the bread and snack cake shortage has expanded to include New York City, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Cleveland, Turkewitz said...