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...inhospitable as both these worlds seem, their discovery, announced two weeks ago by San Francisco State University astronomers Geoffrey Marcy and Paul Butler, has thrown an almost wholly speculative area of study solidly into the realm of tangible fact. Despite years of searching with the most powerful telescopes, despite decades of listening for the faint crackle of radio signals from distant civilizations, despite endless theorizing about how life might or might not arise, nobody had ever found concrete evidence to suggest that our planet, our civilization, our life-forms were anything but unique in the cosmos...
With his knowledge of alto and baritone sax, and a flute thrown in good measure, Natchez was a good match...
...number of names were being thrown around by the band, and Jeremy, before our first show with the Allstonians, said 'I'm not letting you guys go on unless you call yourselves 'Skavoovie and the Epitones.' I love that name,'" he explains...
There is no better example than the 1960 Olympic Games. A collection of young hockey players from Harvard and the University of Minnesota, given only 15 dollars a month for expenses, were thrown into the Olympic battle...
Stories still circulate about one collegiate crew coach who told a team after a particularly brutal workout that no one had put in their best effort because no one had thrown...