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A gift from the past
Remnants of Baltimore's cultural history enrich the Peabody
Archives
When Peabody's Elizabeth Schaaf got wind of the fact
that several dusty, aged gallons of home-brewed liquor had
been exhumed during the school's ongoing major construction
effort, her wheels started turning. No, she wasn't thinking
of the party ramifications; rather she turned her attention
to the mystery of just who could have left such a cache of
spirits.
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University prepares for reaccreditation
The university has entered the final stretch of
preparation for its upcoming reaccreditation by the Middle
States Commission on Higher Education. The formal
evaluation, which occurs every 10 years, will come in two
phases, the first of which occurs this month and the second
in March 2004.
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Voyager 1 approaches solar system's outer
limits
More than 25 years after leaving home, NASA's Voyager
1 spacecraft reached a key checkpoint on its historic
journey toward interstellar space. Analyzing six months of
data from Voyager's Low-Energy Charged Particle instrument,
a team led by Stamatios Krimigis of the Johns Hopkins
Applied Physics Laboratory determined that the spacecraft,
while nearly 8 billion miles from Earth, passed through and
later returned behind the turbulent zone known as the solar
termination shock.
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Departments
Landmark fruit fly 'map' may yield drugs for genetic
disorders