eToo y: loudy, prinkJe, 44°F (70C)Tonight: loudy, drizzle, 34°F (10C)Tomorrow: loudy, raw, 40°F (5° )

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JIRJ SCHINDLER-THE TECH

Russell Sammon '98 Jostles for the ball with an opponent In MIT's 19-6 win over Curry College.

The ize of tudent ' Ath nadi k quota wa incre d from 10megabyte to 12.5 megabyte earlyTuesday mornin . The la t timespace wa increa ed wa in Augu t1994 when the quota wa doubledfrom five to 10 megabyte .

The increa e wa made by Di -tributed Computing and etworkService, a divi ion of InformationSystem.

Student' di k pace "alwaygradually increa es," aid Directorof Academic omputing GregoryA. Jack on.

The periodic replacement ofolder server with larger, more pow-erful ones gradually increa ed theamount of online storage that theInstitute has available for tudent,Jackson said.

"It h been common practice top riodically increa e the defaultu er quota to try to keep in tep withcurrent demands," aid y ternProgrammer Matthew H. Braun '93,team leader of Athena erver Oper-ation .

U e of application likeFramemaker and the popularity ofthe World-Wide eb have greatlincrea ed the amount of data toragethat tudent need, Braun aid.

While I hope to implement" mailer quota increa e more fre-quently," the next increa e ha notyet been cheduled, meaning anotherincrea e will not likely come beforethe end of the term, Braun aid.

In order to implement the quotaincrea e, 30 gigabyte ha beenadded to the Athena AF Cell, leav-

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MIT Team Places First Morjopoulos Elected GSCPresiden~'In Design Competition Plans to Lobbyfor Graduate Housing

Train Club Switches

BRIAN YA DE BOSCH-THE TECH

People take to the roof of Building 37 last week to viewComet Hyakutake. The brightest comet In 20 years, Hyaku-take won't be back for 18,000 years. See tory, page 11.

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or repre ntation d iredEh an, the vice presidential can-

didate, did not attend the G elec-tion meeting because of a la t-minute job interview.

According to her statement ofpurpo e, Eh an "will work hard toen ure that more department arerepre ented at G meetings andthat more tudents are informed ofour activities."

In order to ervice graduates, theG could create a World-WideWeb page that would con olidateevent of intere t to graduate tu-dent ,Morfopoulo said.

Morfopoulo ha er ed a aG r pre entative of the Depart-ment of i il and nvironmental

ngineering and chair of the ocialcommittee for A hdown Hou e.

"The mi sion of G i toimprove graduate tudent quality oflife," Morfopoulo aid. A pre i-dent, he would be committed to thatpurpo e.

Hou ing i one of the i ueimportant to graduate tudent,Morfopoulo aid. "The Gshould lobby and fight to keep grad-uate student hou ing on campu ," heaid.

Morfopoulo hope to continuethe GS ' good working relation-ship with the admini tration, hesaid. That way, in a "crisi situa-tion," the G C can easily approachthe dean , he said.

As a way to "get people out oftheir labs," Morfopoulo wouldponsor workshop with graduate

department representatives, he aid.In this way, the GSC can betterunderstand student concerns andenhance graduate cooperation.

omes

The Graduate tudent Councilelected Con tantine A. MorfopouloG a president on Tuesday in itsonly contested election thi year.

Maria Eh an (J was elected vicepresident, while Eva Moy G andLawrence D. Barrett G were electedsecretary and treasurer, respectively.

In the presidential election, Mor-fopoulos ran against AndrewRhomberg G. Both candidates gavefive minute speeches followed byquestion from the council.

Rhomberg viewed representationas an important part of the GSC.There needs to be a "broader contri-bution from students in activitiesand decisions," he said.

Morfopoulos plans to increa eparticipation in the GSC andimprove graduate tudent quality oflife.

By David D. HsuNEWS EDITOR

lub goal i to ha e fun

Today the club's goal is "tohave fun," he said. "People do pro-jects to ee' hat irs' materialize,"said Co- mor Peter K. Lee '97.

"Because of the collective natureof the club, people are free to focuson the areas of modeling that theyenjoy most, without having to worryabout the other areas that are nece -sary to create a believable, function-ing miniature world," ile itch said.

Becoming a member of the clubis ea y, ilevitch aid. "For peopleaffiliated with IT in any way, youneed only how up and say that youwant to join."

track layout to making cenery, andpaint cabs and cars.

The club has about 20 activemembers, and usually meet everySaturday afternoon and into theevening.

"Approximately half of these arealumni members, some of whomhave been in the club for over 30year ," ilevitch aid. "The otherhalf i divided between student andgue t member from the Bo tonarea."

By May K. TseSTAFF REPORTER

After one last open house tomor-row, the Tech Model Railroad Club

will be say-DeatulV'o ing good-.L' ~ ,{/ bye to itslong-time

home in Building 20 a it prepareto move Its J 000 feet of track tofirmer ground.

"We're planning to movebecau e the Institute is planning totear down building 20 within a cou-ple of year," aid Daniel M. ile-vitch '96, the club' co-governor.

The club will likely be setting upagain in the MIT Mu eum building(Building 52). Most of the club'scurrent layout - the 600 quare-foot o-called Tech ickel Plateline, which ha 200 track witchesand bridge two model cities - willbe taken apart. Member will builda new model at the new site.

The move is the fir t one in along time for the club, which hasbeen in Building 20 since 1948, twoyears after it wa founded. Thi lastopen hou e will last from 10 a.m. to10 p.m. and will be held in Room20E-214.

A the name implie , the modelrailroad club focu e n buildingand running model railroads. Mem-ber design control systems, plan

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with a design problem involving anoil spill onto the coast of Maine andwere asked to minimize the environ-mental damage caused by the spill.

"We were given a list ofre ources such as helicopters, tug-boats, and oil skimmers with whichto combat the spill, orne of whichwere located in Portland, Maine,and others in Boston," Guidry said.

In addition, the leaking oil tankercould not be moved until it wasrepaired; matters were further com-plicated by an impending stormalert, Guidry said.

"Using what we felt were rea-sonable engineering approxima-tions, we found that the spill couldbe completely contained in an 18-hour period." Guidry said.

The team concluded that even if,the incoming storm damaged the

Spring\Ahead!

For the third consecutive year,an MIT team placed first in theannual Tau Beta Pi District DesignCompetition, hosted by the Univer-sity of Massachusetts at Lowell la tSaturday. UMass Lowell shared firstplace with MIT.

Salman Khan '98, Michaelidry '98, Praveen Ghanta '99,

a d arendra Maheshri '99 compet-ed in the one-day-long engineeringcompetition, which is open to col-lege freshmen and sophomores.

This year, MIT competed withteams from orwich University, theUniver ity of ew' Hampshire, theU~iversity of Maine, UMas Low-ell, the Univer ity of Massachusettsat Amher t, and Boston University.

u Beta Pi i an engineering hon-Jr society.

Students this year were presented

Daylight savings timebegin unday at 2 a.m.Don't forget to set yourclock one hour ahead beforeyou go to sleep aturdaynight.

By Kwong H. YungSTAFF REPORTER

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militiamen to move into their cabin,which is about 20 miles from amajor highway in a draw surround-ed by high cliffs and reachable byone dirt road.

Gary Gershmel, who owns ageneral store, is among many whowish they would leave. The 400-square-mile Petroleum County, withless than one person per squaremile, is patrolled by only two full-time deputies, Gershmel said.

"We don't need these people inMontana - they are the scary partof this thing now,'~ Gershmel said."We don't want to be the battle-ground of America, and we won'tbe if we are left alone."

Internal militia communiquesobtained by the Los Angeles Times ~show that Vos is in daily contactwith onnan Olson, commander ofthe orthern Michigan RegionalMilitia.

In one telecommunication, Olsonpraised Vos for establishing a"beachhead' and acting as "a for-ward observer for the militia in theMontana theater of operations."

Olson also advised: "Reinforce-ments are on the way. Present planscal1 for mobilization to continuethroughout the next two weeks."

Both Vos and Olson dismissed 4the negative reaction they are get-ting from many Montana residents.

"People like Don Vos, myselfand a hest of others who might becalled hard-line," Olson said Thurs-day, "represent the worst pos iblenightmare - the loosing of the dogsof war."

But without hard-liners, headded, cooler heads in the anti-fed-eral government movement wouldlack the leverage to negotiate the

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communications sent by theUnabomber over the years.

Federal agents continued to ~search the cabin Thursday, using X-ray equipment and other bomb-detecting devices both as a precau-tion against possible booby trapsand to avoid contaminating evi-dence.

U.S. District Court JudgeCharles C. Lovell asked Kaczynskiwhether he had read the five-pagecomplaint and supporting affidavitfiled by the FBI. "I'd like a fewminutes to read it," a wan-lookingKaczynski, accompanied by hiscourt-appointed public defender,told the judge and a courtroompacked with local spectators andreporters who descended on thistown after news broke Wednesdayof Kaczynski's arrest. After leafingthrough the document, Kaczynskitold Lovell he had sufficientlyexamined it.

The single federal firearms countwith which he has been charged car-ries a maximum prison sentence of10 years. But in the past, a singlecount such as this has been used tobuy time to build a bigger case, with':"more charges.

Kaczynski had been under FBI. surveillance for about the last month

after his younger brother, David,cleaning up his parents' house tosell it, discovered letters and otherdocuments written by Theodore thatseemed to resemble theUnabomber's writings. David thencontacted federal authorities,through a Washington, D.C.,lawyer. On Wednesday, lawenforcement officials moved in onhis primitive cabin, outside the ham- •let of Lincoln.

be a partially completed pipebomb."

achtleben offered no opinion onwhether the paper-wrapped pipebomb had been manufactured beforeor after the Unabomber wrote hisexhaustive 35,000-word "mani-festo" that wa published last Sep-tember by The Washington Post andthe ew York Times after theUnabomber promised to top planti-ng bombs that kill people.

The FBI affidavit said agentsfound 10 binder notebooks that con-tained sketches and diagrams ofelectrical circuitry commonly usedin building explosive devices aswell as handwritten notes in Englishand Spanish that describe howchemical compounds can be used inmaking bombs. The agent saidKaczynski is able to write in Span-ish.

Agents also found pipes cappedat one end, containers with potassi-um chlorates, sodium chlorates, alu-minum, lead and silver oxide -which are commonly used in mak-ing bombs - as well as aluminumingots and metal filings "consistent~ith aluminum," which the affidavitsaid can be used as a catalyst in anexplosive material.

"Based on my experience in theinvestigation of the use of destruc-tive devices, my examination of theabove-described materials ... it ismy opinion that these componentswere designed to be, could be, andwere intended to be readily assem-bled into a destructive device suchas a pipe bomb," Sachtleben said.

Federal officials said outside thecourtroom that the searchers alsofound two manual typewriterswhich are to be compared to typed

night special who might crack off around at somebody and start a realmess."

Given that April 19 is theanniversary of both the tragedy atWaco and the Oklahoma Citybombing last year, authorities andresidents in Montana are nervousabout the arrival of these hard-core,

, anti-government contingents.They also fear that threats of vio-

lence could upset the delicate nego-tiations between FBI agents and theFreemen at the farm, dubbed "JustusTownship.' FBI officials said thisweek that they are considering sev-eral people to act as mediators in thedispute.

On Thursday, four of theFreemen sitting on folding chairson a dirt road, met with negotiatorsfor the first time in the ll-daystandoff. The freemen met for about1{ hours with four negotiators at theedge of the compound. At least oneof the negotiators was said to be afederal agent.

The standoff began March 25when Freemen leaders LeRoySchweitzer and Daniel Petersen Jr.were arrested at the farm in anundercover operation. They arecharged in schemes involving fraud-ulent checks and money orders, aswell as with threatening the life of afederal judge. Another member,Richard E. Clark, turned himself inSaturday. All three remain in cus-tody, held without bail.

Authorities believe that threefugitives from orth Carolina andtwo from Colorado with anti-gov-ernment views similar to theFreemen remain holed up at thefarm, with women and children.

Winnet residents say that Cham-heflin and h .'ft ; Gerry, th eek

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By lIIam CI lborneTHE WASHINGTON POST

HELENA, MONT.

urrounded by federal mar hal ,Theodore J. Kaczyn ki, a taciturnand bearded hermit identified byfederal agent as the terrorist knownas the Unabomber, wa broughtbefore a federal judge Thur day andcharged with pos es ing compo-nents for a "de tructive device."

The ingle felony charge madeno mention of the Unabomber's 17-year tring of bombing attacks thatkilled three people and injured 23others. Federal officials said it wasfiled simply to hold Kaczynski, 53,while federal agents complete theirsearch of the suspect's remotewildernes cabin 40 miles north ofhere.

Wearing orange prison garb andan enigmatic smile, the Harvardgraduate and former Berkeley math-ematics professor, who has lived inan i olated Montana cabin for morethan two decades, said litde morethan "yes" and "no" to a series ofprocedural questions before beingtaken back to the local county jail tobe held without bond.

In an affidavit filed after agentstook Kaczynski into custodyWednesday and made a preliminarysearch of his cabin, FBI specialagent Donald J. Sachtleben por-trayed the residence as an elaborate-ly equipped pipe bomb factorydespite the structure's lack ofplumbing and electricity.

The agent said that he found"chemicals and other materials that,in my opinion, are designed andintended for use in manufacturing adestructive device, namely a pipebOmb ... includi g what appear to

By Louis SahagunLOS A GELES TIMES

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While. anti-government"Freemen" involved in a standoffwith federal agents in Jordan,Mont., met with negotiators onThursday, armed militia memberswere busy setting up base camps inthe area, threatening to kill authori-tie if the incident ends in blood-shed.

One of those groups, the OhioUnorganized Militia of ColumbianaCounty - has set up operations at acabin near Winnet, Mont., about 75miles west of Jordan. The cabin iowned by Lyle Chamberlin, a Free-man and supporter of the estimated20 people holed up at the 960-acrefarm.

In a telephone interview fromthe cabin Wednesday night, Ohiomilitiaman Don Vos said: "Therewill not be another Waco that thegovernment will survive." He wasreferring to the deadly 1993 con-frontation at Waco, Texas, betweenfederal agents and Branch Davidiancult members.

"Federal agents may have thatJordan fann blocked off," he said."But if they shoot or burn the kidsinside, they will never leave Mon-tana."

Vos has conveyed similar tate-ments to local law enforcementauthorities.

"Vos told me that he was here tomonitor the situation in Jordan andthat if the FBI moved in and therewas bloodshed, he would retaliate,"said Fergus County UndersheriffTom Killham.

"These guys are very disturb-ing," he added. "I'm worried aboutmore Don Vase oming in here -

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What Spring?

Today: Mostly cloudy with some light sprinkles (flurries inland?)from Boston outh and west. Quite chilly with high temperatures inlow to mid 40s (5-7°C), moderate northerly winds gradually veeringto northeast.

LrrrLE ROCK, ARK.

Defense attorneys charged Thursday that the government's keywitnes in the Whitewater affair ha offered a number of differingaccount of a mid-19 Os financial con piracy that allegedly includedPre ident Clinton.

Sam Heuer, attorney for Clinton's former investment partnerJame B. McDougal, attacked the credibility of prosecution witnessDavid L. Hale at the outset of cross-examination in the trial ofMcDougal, hi ex-wife, u an, and Arkansa Gov. Jim Guy Tucker.

But Heuer' emotionally charged cross-examination did little toruffle Hale's studied composure. Hale strongly resisted the defense'sinsinuations that he had fabricated the alleged conspiracy in order towin leniency from Whitewater Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr.

"You're lick; you're good," Heuer finally conceded in frustra-tion. 'I've never cross-examined anyone a slick as you."

everthele ,Heuer succeeded in showing that some parts of thetory told by Hale from the witness stand over the past three days

were not identical to tatement he had made in earlier interviewswith the FBI and the pre .

WEATHER

As T.S. Eliot wrote, "April is the cruelest month, breeding! Lilacsout of the dead land, mixingl Memory and de ire ... " Indeed, thememory of winter refusing to leave, and will mix with our desire forspring weather during the next several days, as we wait in vain for thewarm weather to finally make its appearance.

Instead, cold air will remain over the ortheast and unsettledweather will take up residence overhead. A quick-moving clipper willbrush by early today to the south of us, bringing clouds and only scat-tered, light precipitation. In its wake the winds will drift to the north-east, and raw, moist airmass will then predominate for most of theweekend. With cold air in place flurries cannot be ruled out inland,whilst bone-chilling drizzle is expected near the coast. Things are notlikely to improve soon: By late Sunday a potentially significant stormmay be gathering strength off Carolina Capes. Should this systemcontinue to intensify, unseasonably cold temperatures will support alate-season snows along the East Coast by Monday into Tue day.

Court Upho ds Teen Abortion RuleSA FRA CISCO

A trongly divided California Supreme Court Thursday upheld apreviously blocked tate law that requires minor to obtain permi -sion from a parent or a judge to have an abortion.

The 1987 law, never enforced becau e of lower court rulings, pro-hibits doctors from performing abortions on unmarried girl under theage of 18 without consent. Doctors who perform the abortions couldbe prosecuted for mi demeanors.

Justice Stanley Mosk, the court's most liberal member, wrote themajority 4-3 deci ion to uphold the law. Rejecting arguments by civillibertarian, phy icians and women' group, the majority held thatthe law does not violate state constitutional protections of privacybecau e minors have fewer legal right than adult .

"This case i not about the morality of abortion," wrote Mosk.Minors, he aid, "may not reasonably expect to have the unrestrictedfreedom of an adult to exercise" the choice to have an abortion with-out con ent.

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LOS ANGELES TIMES

SEOUL, SOlITH KOREA

Thou and of college tudent marched through eoul Thur dayin rapidly e calating mas student protests that for the first time arecalling for the ouster of Pre ident Kim Young am.

The prote t - triggered by the recent heart-attack death of a tu-dent demonstrator after he was beaten by riot police - could hardlycome at a worse time for Kim, whose ruling ew Kore Party isalready expected to lose its parliamentary majority in crucial legisla-tive elections next week. Kim has been pre ident ince 1993.

The sharp turn of campu entiment again t Kim - who in the1980 was revered by college tudents a a leading fighter for democ-racy is widely viewed a damaging to the ruling party, e peciallyamong younger voter . The party wa already plagued by a corrup-tion scandal that erupted everal weeks ago.

Protesters rallied throughout the day Thur day at Yon ei Univer i-ty, around a coffin containing the body of Roh 00 Sok, 20. A hugesign by the main campus gate declared: "Before we bury Soo ok,let' topple down Kim Young am, murderer and chiefthiefl"

Tonight: Mostly cloudy and raw, with patchy fog and drizzledeveloping near the coast. Chance of flurries inland. ortheasterlywinds continuing. Lows near 34°F (1°C)

aturday: Cloudy and raw with onshore winds. Highs only inlow 40s (5-6°C)

unday outlook: Continued cloudy and chilly, with. precipitationredeveloping: rain along the coast, mixed inland. Highs near 40~F(5°C), lows in low 30s (O-IOC) near the coast, in the upper 20s (-3 to-1°C) elsewhere.

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Comet Hyakutake's MysteriousX-Rays Astonish Astronomers

NEWSDAY

In a surprising reversal of normal behavior, a new ceramic-likematerial, called zirconium tungstate, shrink rather than expandswhen it's heated, cientists reported Thur day.

The new material could help scientists overcome serious problemsin electronics, optics, metallurgy and ceramics, re earcher aid-including helping keep silicon chip from expanding, and eliminatingdistortions caused by temperature changes in very preci e mirror.

"If ypu can mix it with other material ,you could compen ate" fortheir temperature-induced change in ize, aid phy ici t ThomaVogt, at the Brookhaven ational Laboratory in ew York. "Youcould end up with material that don't how any change in hape,which could be very important."

Vogt said the new compound "is the only material we know thathas this unusual behavior over such avery, very long temperaturerange." The trange behavior occurs con i tently over a temperaturerange of 2,000 degrees Farenheit.

Unlike other ub tances, zirconium tungstate al 0 expand a itcools. And it keep on expanding as temperature get down to almo tab olute zero, or minus 459 degrees F. Water al 0 expand as it hard-en into ice, but only at a very pecific temperature.

The behavior of the zirconium tung tate i 0 strange and unprece-dented, in fact, that Vogt aid he "immediately checked my tempera-ture controls" to be ure the mea urements were correct.

"We got very clo e to the absolute zero point, and the tuff watill expanding," Vogt aid.

The strange properties of zirconium tungstate were di covered bychemist Arthur leight's team at Oregon tate University. Vogt wascollaborating in the re earch, analyzing the material with a flood ofneutrons from the laboratory's high flux beam reactor.

leight said researchers see it mainly as "being blended into poly-mer (plastic) composites to bring thennal expan ion down to zero, orin (electronic) circuit boards to bring expansion down until it matchessilicon."

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Fonner Lo Angele Mayor Tom Bradley was in erious conditionlate Thursday after suffering a stroke earlier in the day, leaving doc-tors concerned but cautiously hopeful about hi chance of regainingthe speech and movement 10 t in the episode.

Bradley uffered the seizure a day fier undergoing ucces fultriple-byp s heart surgery at Kai er Pennanente's Hollywood hospi-tal. The five-term mayor has been hospitalized for the pa t twoweeks, after suffering a heart attack as he returned after a businesmeeting.

'As to his prognosi , time will tell," aid Fred Alexander,Bradley's lead doctor, at an afternoon new conference. "We don'tlike to peculate. We are hopeful that he will have a full return offunction, but I cannot say that that will occur."

Early in the day, the 7 -year-old Bradley 10 t all movement on hisright side and was unable to speak. He initially re ponded "very poor-ly" to doctor commands.

Later in the day, Bradley seemed to recognize doctor and familymembers and was nodding in respon e to que tion . He al 0 regainedorne movement, wiggling his toes lightly.

Doctor speculated that a blood clot, perhap originating inBradley's heart, broke loose and became lodged in the left ide of hisbrain.

Doctors aid the bypass urgery i elf had proven ucce ful andthat Bradley's blood pressure and heart rhythm were greatlyimproved following the operation. "He i very strong in that re pect,'.'Alexander said.

Scientists Discover Material ThatBehaves Unusually When Heated

WASH I GTO

Astonished astronomer have detected my terious X-rays emanat-ing from Comet Hyakutake as it sweeps past Earth toward the sun.

The first X-rays ever found coming from any comet, they arerevealed in an image released Thursday by a team of U.. and Ger-man astrophysicists u ing the German ROSA T satellite.

The di covery i surprising, the researchers said, becau e a cometis an icy ball of dirt, whereas X-rays - one of the most energeticforms of electromagnetic radiation - are most often a ociated withga es heated to a million degrees or more, uch as flare on the un,or with violent interaction involving ubatomic particle .

"We had no clear expectation that comet hine in X-ray," said ".Michael J. Mumma, of A A' Goddard pace Flight Center inGreenbelt, Md., a member of the international team that announcedthe finding Thur day." ow we have our work cut out for us inexplaining the e data. But that' the kind of problem you love tohave."

The team u ed the orbiting RO AT - an X-ray observatory - toobserve the comet repeatedly over a total of six hours, betweenMarch 26 and March 28. The image relea ed Thursday was takenMarch 27, as the comet pa ed within 10 million miles of Earth.

Team leader Carey Lis e of Goddard and the Univer ity of Mary-land said he con idered the comet's clo e pass an opportunity toogood to miss, even though he expected to find only low level of X-ray emissions at best.

As it turned out, he said, the X-ray signal was about 100 timesbrighter than even his most optimistic calculations had predicted, andit fluctuated wildly within a few hours. "I was ab olutely elated," hesaid. "This is something brand new .... We'll be working on thi foryears."

"The whole thing was done on a lark, said Robert Petre, the Unit-ed States' lead scientist for the ROSAT atellite. "Once we had theenonnous signal, we had to go back and scratch our heads."

In the image, the X-rays appear to emanate from a crescent-shaped area of the coma, or halo, a vast sphere of gas and debris thatsurrounds the comet' tiny nucleus. The crescent is on the ide of thehalo that is inted toward the sun.

was the worst in a decade."Croatian aviation experts aid

the two pilots flying on instrumentsand unable to see the ground, atsome point after their final approachfor landing apparently shifted northinto St. John's Hill rather than fun-neling into the mo t westerly valleythat lead to the airport.

Radar on a ATO monitoringplane tracking the flight showed itstarted the 12-mile descent into theairport correctly. Asked why theplane might have steered north,experts familiar with the instru-ments on the plane speculated that itcould have been pilot error or faultyequipment - all aggravated bygusty winds and possibly lightning.

The Air Force said the chiefpilot, Capt. Ashley Davis, 35, andcopilot, Capt. Timothy Schafer, 33,were experienced with the aircraft.Davis had been flying the plane outof its base in Ramstein, Germany.Schafer had arrived in Ramsteinonly four months ago but flew T-43As for several years in the early1990s while stationed in California.

million people worldwide. Its peakincidence is about age 65. Three ofthe new cases were identified inteenagers, which is exceedinglyrare. Cases of CJD transmitted unin-tentionally by brain extracts or cont-aminated medical instruments haverevealed that often 10 years (andoccasionally as much as 30 years)passes before an infection causesymptoms.

The disease typically affectsmovement, balance, cognition andemotion to varying degrees. Oncethey appear, the ailment has adownward and invariably fatalcourse. Brain tissue of CJD victimshas a characteristic moth-eaten,spongy appearance when exam inedunder the microscope.

The cases described in theLancet included people between theage of 16 and 39 at the time of diag-nosis. Six were women and fourwere men. They survived an aver-age of 12 months between the onsetof symptoms and death. Nine hadbehavioral changes early in the dis-ease and were referred to psychia-trists. ine also had ataxia, orunsteadiness of the limbs. One ofthe patients had been a strict vege-tarian since 1991, suggesting thateating beef could not have been arecent source of infection.

said the tatement was "not alldoom and gloom.'

"The IRA is restating its positionon what has happened to date,"Adams told Irish Radio. But "it istaking a more positive attitude interms of what is pos ible in thefuture. '

John Hume, head of the SocialDemocratic and Labor Party, thedominant Roman Catholic andnationalist party in orthern Ire-land, held out hope that the IRAwould not return to violence.

'They ay they're willing to helpto create the conditions in whichnegotiations can take place," Humesaid in a television interview. "I seethat as a positive sign that it is stillpossible to restore the cease-fire."

But Protestant, who favor orth-ern Ireland's continued union withBritain, said the statement showedthe IRA has not changed.

"They'll use any means toachieve their end," Peter Robinson,of the Democratic Unionist Party,told 13ritain'~ Sky ew. ",If they

n ~ev lo bomb d ill 0-pIe, they'll do thai"'~ .

Pet r Galbraith, the U. . amba -ador to Croatia.

The aircraft, a military version ofa Boeing 737 on a short flight fromthe Bosnian city of Tuzla, "was notwhere it should have been," Gal-braith said. He told a news confer-ence at the Dubrovnik airport thatthe plane "seems to have flown upnot along the coast, but along a val-ley one ridge over."

The Dubrovnik airport, sand-wiched between the sea and thejagged mountains of the DalmatianCoast, lies in the most seaward ofthree paralle) valleys that cut backnortheastward into the mountains.

The airport has a radio systemallowing instrument landings in badweather, and five planes landedsafely before the crash. But the air-port lacks the more sophisticatedand reliable landing devices that arecommon in U.S. airports.

"It's on a shelf - you have tohit it pretty right - and whenthere's low visibility, it can be dan-gerous," Galbraith said, adding thatthe weather at the time of the crash

ease apparently entered cattle fromfeed containing bone meal and offalfrom sheep afflicted with anotherclosely related infection, calledscrapie.

When word of new CJD caseswas released by British officials,there was suspicion that the infec-tions came from consumption ofbeef or contact with beef products.The authors of the Lancet report donot discount this possibility.

"We believe that our observationof a previously unrecognised variantof CJD occurring, to date, only inpersons under the age of 45 years isa cause for great concern," writeRobert G. Will, of the national CJDsurveillance unit, in Edinburgh,Scotland, and his colleagues ..

Britain banned use of cattle car-casses in the preparation of cattlefeed in 1988, and in 1989 bannedthe use of brains and several othercattle organs in food for human con-sumption. In addition, thousands ofanimals ih BSE-infected herds werekilled and incinerated to preventspread of the disease. Over the lastmonth, however, nearly every Euro-pean country has banned imports ofBritish beef. (Such a ban existed inthe United States before the recentCJD outbreak.)

CJD afflicts about J in every

pIe to national self-determinationand sovereignty, has made its posi-tion abundantly clear. We reaffinnthat position.

'The IRA remains fully commit-ted to its republican objectives andfor so long as Britain per ists in itdenial of national and democraticrights in Ireland then the IRA willcontinue to assert tho e rights."

But another passage said theIRA "remains ready to help indeveloping the conditions whichwill allow for a meaningful negotia-tions proces , free from precondi-tions of any kind."

The group lambasted the Briti hgovernment for refusing to give aseat to inn Fein, the IRA politicalwing, at June's scheduled partytalks about a peace settlement TheBritish maintain the IRA cease-firemust be reimposed before Sinn Feinis allowed to participate in the talks.

orthern Ireland Secretary SirPatrick Mayhew admitted Wednes-day night that the prospects for peacewould be ;"ll)m~Jy iJ;n~~ov~"QY t m. f' '-~~~=""':::.?r"'II"-

inn Fein leader Gerry Adams

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Ten recent British cases of abrain infection possibly transmittedby infected cattle are virtually iden-tical to one another, and they appearto be a distinct outbreak, cientistsreported Friday.

Nonnally the rare ailment, calledCreutzfeldt-Jakob disease, strikespersons older than 60, but the newcases all occurred in people underthe age of 45. They were also alldiagnosed in a period of 10 months,with nine appearing between Octo-ber 1995 and January 1996. In con-trast, only 22 cases of CJD werefound in Britons under the age of 45in the 24 years preceding the recentoutbreak, the researchers write inSaturday's edition of the Lancet, aEuropean medical journal.

The victims, eight now dead,shared no unusual habits or expo-sures that the scientists have beenable to discover so far. All, howev-er, had eaten beef in the last decade.

An infection similar to CJDexists in cattle. Called bovinespongifonn encephalopathy (BSE)or, popularly, "mad cow disease,"the infection was found in J 50,000animals in 33,000 British herdsbetween 1986 and 1995. The dis-

By Bill GlauberTHE BALTIMORE SUN

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The Irish RepUblican Armyquashed hopes of an early cease-firein it terror campaign to drive theBritish out of orthern IrelandThursday, a move that renewedecurity fears heading into the East-

er holiday weekend.De pite calling for a negotiated

settlement to end the long conflict inorthern Ireland, the paramilitary

group reaffirmed its "mandate forarmed struggle" in a statementreleased in Dublin.

The statement was releasedbefore unday parades that com-memorate a 1916 Irish uprisingagainst Britain.

The IRA halted its 17-monthcease- fire in February and has sincetargeted London with four bombsthat have killed three and injuredscores.

In provocative language, thestatement maintained, "1"he IRAwhose mandate for armed s,truggJederives from Britain's d al Qf.t efundamental right of the Iri h peo-

Irish Republican Army Moves FOlWard in Its.Te or Campaign to Drive British off Territory

By John Pomfretand Blaine Harden

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The remains of Se retary ofCommerce Ronald H. Brown, adozen American business execu-tives and at least 20 other pa sen-gers were being carried Thursdayoff a storm-swept Croatian moun-taintop where their military jetcrashed and disintegrated onWednesday, leaving no survivors.

Working near the Adriatic Seaamid another day of the drivingrains and high winds that arebelieved to have contributed to thecrash, American, Croatian andFrench soldiers collected bodiesscattered across a rocky site thatstraddles a 2,300-foot peak calledSt. John's Hill.

The Air Force T -43A passengerplane carrying Brown, who wasescorting business leaders on a mis-sion to assess possible postwarreconstruction of Bosnia and Croat-ia, was badly off course at thecoastal airport near the ancient portcity of Dubrovnik, according to

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unprovoked ma s murder of innocents. IhopeGolub realize the great injustice he has doneto the memory of the innocent people slaugh-tered by the e many truly oppressive organi-zations. By placing as a greater evil the veryorganization that has often fought againstthese oppre sor , namely the U.S. military,Golub spits in the face of general humandecency and compassion.

The issues I mention here deal with onlypart of Golub's letter, but the rest of his tiradeis filled with several similar, if not as starklyoffensive, exaggerations and half-truths. It ismy hope that perhaps Golub does not takehimself eriously, and that he intended only tosomehow jump-start debate, but nevertheless Ifeel he has made remarks that are uninfonned,insensitive, and wholly uncharacteristic of thetype of dialogue and thought that MIT needstoday.

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not only our freedom, but the freedom ofother people of the world. I do not claim thatthe record of our military i potle ; there areevent that will perhaps always be debated,such a the Mexican-American war and Viet-nam. However, I think it is clear to most rea-sonably infonned people that our military habravely and consistently fought againstoppres ion and for freedom from the day ofthe American Revolution to the Second WorldWar, the Cold War, and today.

Second, perhaps Golub's greate t offen eis not in defaming our military, but in glossingover and ignoring the many atrocities ofrecent world history by placing the U.S. mili-tary as the chief terrorist force and cause ofpain in the world. I find it deeply disturbingfor Golub to claim that our military, whichmany of my relatives have served in, has doneworse than the Irish Republican Anny, the

azis, Hamas, and other perpetrators of

Gol b LetteDefameImust ay that I was startled and to a degree

offended by the letter by Aaron Golub G wroteto The Tech ["ROTC Is Anything But Right forMIT," April 2J in which he landers the U.S.military with what I feel are ome outrageousaccusations. Golub make perhaps his mo toffensive statement early in his letter a hebrands our military a "the world's foremo tterrorist organization." He further tates thatour military ha caused "more pain and uffer-ing ... than any other single organization." Theoffen e I take at these statements is twofold.

First, Golub's descriptions of the U.S. mil-itary as a terrorist organization trike me notonly a being overblown and ludicrou , but asdefaming the many good men who have diedin service of our country in order to defend

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A Rotch Ubrary visitor examines photographs of Berlin by Camlla Chaves Cortes.

Visitors may check out Legend of theReichstag, a short video by Cortes, at thecirculation desk.

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ing to Christo, the wrapping is about free-dom. In addition to bringing millions of vi i-tors and various festivities, the wrappingsignifies that Berlin and Gennany are will-ing to don a new identity, whatever it maybe.

divi ion introduced by the Wall in I 61. Inseveral photo , indu trial cranes appearcurtains to hi torical monuments. In anintriguing photo called "The GermanDome," Corte puts great care into framingthe Humboldt Univer ity of Berlin, the

ikolai dome, and the Televi ion Towertogether, and thus empha ize the interfaceof past and present.

On the column besides the circulationdesk is a vertical montage calJed "Architec-tural Progress." From top to bottom, thiswork creates the ilJusion of traveling time bystitching together the traditional and modemaspects of Berlin architecture. Other picturesexpress the merging of culture, where mediaicons like Marlene Dietrich juxtapose ves-tiges of Berlin's azi pa t.

Much of the remaining exhibit focuseson the wrapping of the Reichstag parliamen-tary building last summer. Christo, the samecontroversial artist who lined California andJapan with umbrellas, chose to wrap thebuilding with a silver metallic cloth. Yet, heand his wife Jean Claude are not the onlyones responsible for the dressing of thispolitical center (the Bundestag plans tomove in soon). Sparkling and flapping in thewind, the se'nsual wrapping was authorizedby the government and its people. Accord-

BERLI FACADES.Photograph by Camila Chaves Cortes.Rotch Library.erlin ha remained a city of dynamic

symboli m, tom and remodeled bythe imminence and actuality of over-throw. ow capital of a united Ger-

many, Berlin of the the 90 looks back at theburning of the Reichstag by the azi in1933 and the recent fall of the Wall withboth regret and anxiety. The gates of theonce divided city have dropped and by 2000,more than 47 percent of the city will havecompletely changed.

Camila Chaves Cortes, a research feHowin the Department of Urban Studies andPlanning, spent last summer in Berlin cap-turing the images of a city under virtualreconstruction. From over 2000 negativesshe compiled a set of photographs that arenow featured in Berlin Facades, an exhibitthat has been on display for some time inRotch Library. These photos deserve imme-diate attention before June, for much of theexhibit has already been dismantled, and therest wilJ be gone completely near then.

It is almost easy to miss Cortes' series ofblack and white photographs. Unlabeled andcleanly framed, they match the library'ssleek architecture. But in the proper context,Cortes' eye for geometric shapes and spatialorganization reveals the various layers ofBerlin's constantly evolving face.

Modem Berlin as depicted by Cortes ismuch more complex than the East-West

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ound guys.The album is pretty good - it is an edgy,

hard kind of punk. They ound like they'd begood in concert, which works out well sincethey're going to be at the Middle East tomor-row night. For 7, you get Jawbreaker, Fluf,and errpico. The show tart at 9 p.m., andyou must be over I .If you need omething todo and you don't fi el like cro ing the bridgend leaving ambridge, thi i a decent bet.

For more information, check outhttp://www.geffen.com/jawbreakerl. There'seven a link to The Donkey and Mule HomePage, for the truly curiou .

ot bad for hard andy.

including Vnfun ( hredder 1990), Bi oua(Tupelo/Communion 1992), and 24 HourR venge Therapy (Tupelo/Communion 1994).

The guys who opened for irvana duringIn VI ro at the end of 1993 are now omingaround for their newe t album; thi on m ybe a hock to many ofth ir longtime fan . Thesurprise? After fighting the e tablishment for awhile, and enduring th ir hare of hard hipand ho pitalization of different member ofthe group for variou condition, they ignedwith G ffen Records - a pretty big chang .The new album, D ar You, i n attempt toapologize to the fan, to prove that they'restill the ame old band, only now with better

m ~or, bas i t hri Bauermei ter graduatedin philosophy nd literature, and J wbrea er'singer, songwriter, and all around good guyBlake chwarzenbach ompleted English Lit-erature and cr .ti e writing r quir m nt . It'fun to Ii ten for their influ n e in the po t-L.A. punk, pr -pop-rock ound.

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hard candy. A machine used forcrushing rocks. A word hard to pro-nounce. In 1989, a three piece then-indie band from YU considered all

of the e. They settled on Jawbreaker.They've be n playing together since 1986.

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play doe justice to I th-century romance andchivalry. - D. ony Harvard quare.

*** To torToy Story, Disney's mo t innovative fea-

ture-length film to date, not only i a land-mark in computer animation, but al 0 man-age to retain the action-packed plot line andlight-hearted comedy that have given Di neya virtual tranglehold on children's films. Butbe ides the fact that the film is practically onebig special effect, its premi e is al 0 a lot offun: The upporting characters of the film aresuch familiar toy as Mr. Potato Head, Etch-a- ketch, linky, and those miniature greenpia tic army men that are packaged in buck-

ets. The film tar a talking cowboy dollnamed Woody (voice of Tom Hank) and a"Space Ranger" named Buzz Light year(voice 0 Tim Allen). The villain i the bullywho live next door, a juvenile delinquentnamed id who thoroughly enjoy torturinghi toys. Woody and Buzz ultimately become"lost toys" trapped in Sid's hou e with hihideous toy creations, and have to escapebefore Andy' family moves away withoutthem. Toy Story is a lot of fun and the com-puter animation is, for lack of a better phrasereally cool. -A W Saturday at LSC.

*** 1/2White BalloonA gently-told little gem of a story of a lit-

tle Tehran girl who wants to get a specialgoldfi h for her familie aw-Ruz, or ewYear's celebration. Razieh's story is filmed inreal time; we experience with her the count-down to the ew Year as she struggles fir t toconvince her mother to let her buy the fi h,then sets out on the adventurous journey tofulfill her mis ion. This simple story enableits director, Jafar Panahi, to capture a larg. . .

**** Leaving La VegaThis ometimes-harrowing, often-redemp-

tive look at a relation hip between a de truc-tive alcoholic ( icholas Cage) and a pro ti-tute (Elisabeth Shue) could be a spiritualantidote to the excesses of Showgirls. Cage isa newly-fired screenwriter who e vices havetorn apart his family and led him to LaVegas, where he resolves to drink himself todeath. Shue falls in love with him for hi lackof pretense, and both embark on a journey oflove and self-revelation. Director Mike Figgiscompletely redeems himself for the patheticMr. Jones; here, he paints the characters withwarm, natural emotions and uses the gari hbackdrop of the Vega Strip (where even the

golden arches of McDonald's are adornedwith a multitude of fla hing lights). Thesoundtrack of soulful contemporary song bySting, Don Henley, and other performers ishypnotic and artfully used. It's definitelyworthwhile and uplifting for those who cantake it. -SCD. Sony Copley.

today's-standaras, out Thompson's scr"een- ~ SB.1(enaatI-square:

**1/2 en e and en ibilityDirector Ang Lee (The Wedding Banquet)

and screenwriter-actress Emma Thompsonpresent one of the newest Jane Austen adap-tations this year. Despite the imilarities toBBC television's Pride and Prejudice, thefilm is a treat to watch. Thompson plays Eli-nor, the older, more sensible sister of thefamily, while Kate Winslet plays Marianne,her younger, more pas ion ate si ter. Whenstruck by the 10 of their father, the familymust look to its daughters to seek outprospective husband ; through their trials andmisfortunes (including liaisons with prospec-tive suitors Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman),the family stands together 'and never ['or akeits honor. The dialogue and ruminations on.. .

**1/2FaithfulIt's Margaret's (Cher) 20th wedding

anniversary and her husband has hired a hit-

the pentagon soon learns the real plan: tocrash the plane, loaded with a deadly nervetoxin, into the capitol, instantly killing himselfand the rest of the passenger and sending adeadly plume of ga over much of the easternseaboard. Enter Kurt RusseU and StevenSegal, who must sneak aboard the plan todefuse the bomb. Although the ending inever in question, Executive Decision keepsus hooked from one climax to the next withsurprising efficiency. -Yaron Koren. SonyCheri.

man to kj)) her. Tony (Chazz Palminteri) is tobreak into the couple's home, tie her up, andwait for a phone caB from the husband tellingTony he is far enough away to have an alibi.This leaves Tony and Margaret an hour to sitaround and talk about their live , which theyboth easily do. Overall, Faithful i mildlyfunny but unoriginal. There are several twistsat the end that try to keep it from being pre-dictable, but it feels as if the writers were try-ing too hard to give us a surpri e ending. -DVR. Sony Fresh Pond.

Buzz L1ghtyear and Woody confront each Qther In Disney'S Toy Story, showing Saturday at LSC.

***1/2Antonia's LineA magnificently open-hearted feminist

vision of a way the world could be if menwere not always struggling to dominate it.This epic magical-realist story begins justafter World War II and culminates the dayafter tomorrow. It's'not some matriarchalnever-never land, however - the roses in thisparadise still hold thorns. As the seasons turnover, friends and lovers grow older and die,and those who are left behind have to mixsome sadness with their satis-faction. But its vision isinspired, and it plants hope inour hearts that what has had tobe separated in the past can bebrought together again. -Stephen Brophy. KendallSquare.

****: Excellent***: Good**: Average*:Poor

**** Qead an WalkingDead Man Walking, directed by Tim Rob-

bins and starring Sean Penn and Susan Saran-don, addresses the death penalty issueunflinchingly and comprehensively. It followsconvicted killer Matthew Poncelet (Penn)from the murders, through his several appeals,and finally to his execution in excruciatingdetail, escorted by his spiritual adviser, Si terHelen Prejean (Sarandon). Don't look to thismovie for much action, adventure, or excite-ment. This emotionally brutal film challengesyou to think about the issues surrounding thedeath penalty. You'll walk away from the the-ater with a profound sense of the tragedy thatany murder is, whether it is committed by aperson or by the government. And you willleave with a bitter sense of pity both for theoriginal victims and the convicts on deathrow. -Audrey Wu. Sony Nickelodeon.

* FargoJoel and Ethan Coen revisit familiar territo-

ry, both personal and profes ional, in this tale ofcrime in the heartland. Set in the wintry Min-nesota landscape from which the two brotherescaped a few years ago, this story of a kidnap-ping plot gone bad retreads the sucees of theCoen's first movie, Blood Simple. Thi revi it-ing is underlined by the casting of FrancesMcDormand, Blood Simple's femme fatale, but

*1/2E ecutive Deci ion in a very different role - a I?regnant policeMuslim terrorists hijack a passenger plane c ief with more braInS, determmation, and grit,

el'f rout . ','and th~ release -of thei( spiritu'al lead"'er.But - the movie. "':':"S8. Sony NickelOdeon. .. - - ..

***1/2 The BirdcageThe American version of

the French farce La Cage auxFolies succeeds on many lev-

• els, thanks in part to the ebul-lient performances of RobinWilliams and Nathan Lane.Armand (Williams) is theowner and musical director of anightclub in Miami's SouthBeach section, while his loverAlbert (Lane) is the diva-in-drag who's the star performer atthe club. The trouble startswhen Armand's son (Dan Fut-terman) starts courting thedaughter of a conservative U.S.Senator (Gene Hackman)whose election platform issteeped in "moral order" and"family values." By the timethe film reaches its climactic,comic showdown between thetwo families, the message of"family" and the characters'foibles are so skillfully exploit-ed that one overlooks theexpected degrees of slapstick,even when resorting to gaystereotypes. Director Mike

ichols and screenwriter ElaineMay have struck the appropri-ate comic and social chords forthis film to be a witty, beguil-ing, and relevant film. -ScottC. Deskin. Sony Cheri.

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Tours will leave from building 24 (near room 105) at '2, 3\ and 4 pm, sharp and will visit all 5laboratories listed above. The tours will take roughly Z hours (and you can leave the tour at any time).

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op s which they could use to eethe comet' coma," or head, whichis surrounded by bright ga , Watters

id.Even for those without tele-

cope , the comet wa clearly vi i-ble from mo t pot on campu formo t of the week. This wa particu-larly good luck in a large city like80 ton, where city lights u uallyblock out almo t everything in theevening ky but the moon.

Watters and 0 member JeffFou t G were in charge of coordi-n ting the ex ur ion ; tele opeswere provided by EAP .

The comet i no longer vi iblewith the nak d eye from Cambridge,but can till be een from rural loca-tion in the early evening or pre-dawn kie near the constellationPer eu .

While comet Hyakatuke won'treturn for another 1 ,000 year ,targazer will have another oppor-

tunity to view a comet - the dim-mer Comet Hale-8opp - in Marchof next year.

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Tbia wmm. propoam ia inteadM for undftl1'&duate .tudentewho are interelted in participatm, in neearch projecte in theLaboratory for Computer Soieaoe. Althoqh no prior uperi.noeit n~, pay UDd.. thia UROP Swnr...- Studiee Procram •COlDJlleDIul'ate with aperi.noe, and th p!'OlJ'&lDia open to allund-sraduatee not cul'Nntly or fCfDla1l7 ueoc:iated with theLaboratory. Stud.nte are expected to continu. work in the ran.. mMter (eith .. for credit or for ~). W. hope to identifycnatift and .n .... & undeqraduate .tudentl intc.ted incomputer ecienoe aDd to .noour.... th.ir d..... opm.nt. AninfOl"lD&tional meetinr will be held:

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pa e and the D partment of Earth,Atmo pheric, and Planetary i-ence.

'The turnout far urpa ed mye pectation ," id We A. Watter'9 ,ED tronomy chair.

Although orne watch r weredi appoint d by the intermittenthaze and cloud tho e lucky orpatient enough to have a clear viewwere delighted - and occa ionallya toni.:lhed - by what they aw,Watter aid.

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In pre enting their solution to thejudges, the IT team also justifiedtheir proposal over other alterna-tive .

Local competition held fir tBefore advancing to the district

competition, the team had to applyit problem-solving skills to win thelocal MIT competition.

A total of eleven MIT teamscompeted for the chance to advanceto the district competition. The localcompetition had resulted in a tiebetween the top two teams.

The six judges for the MIT com-petition gave the top two teamsequal total scores. A second vote

re ulted in another tie.The judges lik d the idea of

both teams, but the s cond t am''only drawback wa that they didnot pre ent why they eliminatedsome of their ideas and only pr -sented one of the id a," id Yi-Hung Li '97, an officer of IT'Tau Beta Pi chapter.

In the end, th Tau Beta Pi offi-cers had to break the tie, but thtotal 400 priz money for the toptwo places wa evenly di id dbetween the two teams.

Members of econd te m at MITwere Joel M. Ro enberg '99, Ric r-do Galan '99, John D. Dunagan '98,and John J. Rae '99.

Team compete to de ign de iceIn the MIT local comp tition, the

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Praveen Ghanta '99, Michael J. Guidry '98, Salman A. Khan '98,and Narendra Maheshrl '99 form the team that won the Tau Beta PIdistrict engineering design competition last Saturday.

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