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Models of creation -- the how but never the why -- abound among cosmologists, the most widely accepted being the Big Bang, which in no way forbids the existence of a creator who might have touched it off. One recent hypothesis holds that our universe was born as a microscopic ripple in a perfect vacuum, not so very new an idea, since Thomas Aquinas proposed something similar seven centuries ago. Although the good saint was never excommunicated for such heretical views, he was under constant fire from zealots as a sort of premature secular humanist...
...unwitting conduit for fakes, particularly in ill-documented but now increasingly expensive areas of art. Few forgers would be dumb enough to try to send a fake Manet, let alone a forgery of a living artist like Jasper Johns, through Sotheby's or Christie's. But where fakes abound, some will inevitably turn up at auction; and where millions of dollars abound, fakes will breed...
This is the unsettling world of Chris Van Allsburg. The children's illustrator and author creates books that abound in dramatic perspectives, teasing narratives and haunting, incongruous images. Other authors may try to improve children with edifying themes or thrill them with shocks; Van Allsburg, a small, shy man of 40, simply taps into their vast reservoir of mystery. "To puzzle children is more interesting to me than to educate or frighten them," he says. "I like to plant a seed that will start a mental process, rather than present...
...poor have a built-in defense against runaway crack abuse: they run out of money. The rich have the same limit; it just takes longer to get there. Stories abound of well-heeled users smoking their way through trust funds, savings accounts and charge-card credit lines. Some take out second mortgages and go on to sell jewelry and household items like TVs, VCRs and answering machines...
...strife will take more than a few dismissals. How does Moscow satisfy the growing hunger for self-rule in the republics without aggrieving the large numbers of local Russians? In Estonia, where Russians and other minorities comprise 40% of the 1.7 million population, the Russians complain that personal snubs abound. Alexander Yashugin, a decorated World War II veteran who lives in a suburb of Tallinn, said an Estonian shopkeeper refused to let him register to buy a TV set, and would not even put him on a waiting list. "On the front, they didn't discriminate between Balt and Russian...