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It's a giant: a big, gaseous sphere more than twice as massive as Jupiter and some 450 light-years from Earth. Susan Terebey, an astronomer at the Extrasolar Research Corp. in Pasadena, Calif., discovered it quite by accident while studying a cloud of gas in the constellation Taurus where...
It's no accident that we tend to locate the defining artistic moments of recent decades in TV and other popular media, whereas in earlier decades we found them in, say, literature or painting. This stems from the other convulsion the century had in store for the arts in addition...
It's not by accident that she became associated with the modern movement that included Diaghilev, Picasso, Stravinsky and Cocteau. Like these artistic protagonists, she was determined to break the old formulas and invent a way of expressing herself. Cocteau once said of her that "she has, by a kind...
So he had found himself in his work. But he had not been looking for a cause to lead. It was a historical accident that he appeared to those idealistic rebels against theatrical tradition, the Stanislavskians, as the messiah they had sought for decades--the genius-hunk who could sexily...
On Feb. 23, a state police helicopter hoveringabove the Charles River plummeted 400 feet fromthe sky, crashing into the Harvard Yacht Club,home of the undergraduate sailing team. While theonly casualties were the four passengers, Harvardgrandmothers across the country panicked as thenational media reported the accident as if tosuggest that...