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Harvard gave its all in that semi-final, but the Bruins came up with just a little bit more. Super-scooter Frances Fusco sealed a 2-1 Bruin victory with a goal midway through the second half. Princeton barely worked up a sweat in disposing of Yale...
...semi-independent budget committee responsible for delegating the council's funds each year. Even though each student can opt to retain $6.50 of his $10 surcharge, that leaves at least $20,000 for administrative expenses. If students pay the full surcharge, another $5000 will go toward campus-wide activities and social events, with the remaining $35,000 distributed to officially recognized undergraduate organizations on the basis of need...
...Colorado Native Society (membership requirement: a Colorado birth certificate) took to the road with bumper stickers resembling the state license plate but proudly emblazoned with the word NATIVE. Longtime residents, naturally, felt left out. Equally resentful of the newcomers, they hit the highways with a sticker of their own: SEMI-NATIVE. The immigrants decided to fight back, and before very long, Coloradans were sighting ALIEN vehicles and others labeled FOREIGNER or TRANSPLANT. RESTLESS NATIVES were seen roaming the interstates. Some, lacking a native sense of humor, asked WHO CARES? Came the inevitable answer, I CARE...
Voyager came closest to Saturn just before the 1½-hour period when the spacecraft was behind the planet, totally cut off from the earth. But the semi-intelligent machine continued operations under the command of its preprogrammed computers, taking pictures, performing experiments and storing the information on tape. Not until Voyager 2 emerged from behind Saturn and again began radioing back data did scientists learn that something had gone wrong. As Voyager 2 crossed the rings, the playback showed, the cameras began missing their targets. Somehow the spacecraft's movable "scan platform," which acts as an aiming mechanism...
...laborers is Ukegawa Brothers Inc., a large tomato grower in northern San Diego County. Says Chris Hartmire, an assistant to the president of the United Farm Workers of America: "The Ukegawa workers are living on the ground, under trees, under shrubs, in makeshift huts. They're in a semi-slave situation." The workers bathe in irrigation canals and often drink contaminated water...