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...Then, about a month ago, jaws nearly hit the floor when the Tadpole image reached the Space Telescope Science Institute, which operates Hubble under contract to NASA. It was not the Tadpole itself, which looked just fine and about as astronomers had expected it to, but the background of the photo. It was filled with other galaxies. Thousands of them, including one, a faint red smudge in one corner of the picture, that probably is among the oldest objects ever witnessed, formed within about a billion years of the Big Bang itself...
...Vizzavi, which Messier claimed would be revolutionary. Vizzavi is now practically worthless. To some, it was evidence that Messier--who started his career as a French government bureaucrat--was in over his head. "The market sees him taking on an operational challenge and isn't convinced he has the background, experience or talent to pull it off," says a source close to Vivendi...
With Lower’s backing, the debate about the fringes of the bell curve was no longer at the fringes of the University. This year everyone’s been talking curves and credentials as “C-minus” has happily faded to the background with a smug post-proselytizing grin. Indeed, on April 18, the University waved the bureaucratic equivalent of a giant red flag—an Educational Policy Committee (ECP) report detailing the problems of grade inflation and suggesting ways to ensure that, in the future, every Harvard college student will graduate with...
...revenge on a school. But there are differences: Friday's death toll is slightly higher, German police believe there was only one gunman and the killer zeroed in on teachers rather than fellow students. And perhaps most importantly, Germany, where it can take up to a year to pass background checks required just to buy a hunting rifle, has far stricter gun laws than...
...Background checks or not, angry and disturbed young men will always find a way to play out their fury and exact revenge. And if there are guns around, young men will find them and use them. Some would argue that eliminating that temptation means eliminating guns. Others insist that responsible gun ownership is the cure for irresponsible behavior. The bottom line is that after years of passionate debate and argument, no country in the world has found a system that completely keeps guns away from would-be killers...