Volume 117 >> Issue 35 : Monday, August 25, 1997

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News

• 1,500 New Graduate Students Begin Graduate R/O Activities
• Smorgasbord of Student Groups Will Entertain at Midway Tonight
• New Services Center Organizes Scattered Offices
• ESG, ISP, Concourse Offer Alternatives to Curriculum
• Dialups and Quotas Get Faster, Larger

World and Nation

• Florida Settles Tobacco Suit; Firms to Pay $11.3 Billion
• Primary and Backup Oxygen Generators Aboard Mir Fail
• Genetic Defect Doubles Colon Cancer Risk, Researchers Find
• World Briefs I
• World Briefs II
• Weather: Double Jeopardy

Columns

• Wallmarts, Pavement Undermine Old West
• Activities Show There's More to MIT than R/O Suggests
• Over-hyped Rush Does Little More than Dissapoint

Letters to the Editor

• FLP Bonding Activities Brought Frosh Together
• It's No Surprise When Committees Go Nowhere
• Picariello Beating Highlights MIT Hypocrisy

Comics

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  Dammed for Life -- by Jessica
  

Photographs

Courtney Clench
The sailing team took advantage of yesterday's sunny weather to practice on the Charles River.

Greg Kuhnen -- The Tech
Albert Leija '01 and Arun Mehta '01 demonstrate their entry for the ISP egg drop competition, designed to protect an egg during its 20 story fall from the roof of the Green Building. Other members of the Flaming Egg's team included Jacinda Clemenzi '01 and Nanette Yang '01.