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Since quasars lie billions of light-years from earth, astrophysicists thought they might never prove the theory. But radio astronomers report in the current issue of Nature that they have discovered something similar to a quasar in the Milky Way galaxy, right in our own cosmic backyard. The object is much less powerful than a typical quasar, but it appears to work on the same principle. And being a mere 40,000 light-years away, it will be easier to study...
Deborah Dean knew her daughter's alleged killer well. Garbage cans decorated with gang-designed graffiti separate her backyard from the three-bedroom bungalow where 11-year-old Robert Sandifer grew up with his grandmother, 10 aunts and uncles and at least 20 other children. "I used to carry him as a young boy to church," says Dean. "He sang in the choir with my daughter. He was a baby, just like my daughter was a baby...
...Rhode Island effort is not a lone crusade. Citizens are increasingly taking up the environmental battle cry of NIMBY -- not in my backyard! -- and rallying to block former convicts from settling in their communities. Local groups are pressing state assemblies for tougher detention laws and parole conditions. When legislators don't respond quickly enough, citizens take it upon themselves to sound the alert. As a direct result, more and more states are enacting laws that put the interests of the community before the rights of ex-prisoners. The laws, says Patrick Stafford of the Southern Legislative Conference, are "very representative...
...amateur astronomers are still peering intently through their backyard telescopes to get a glimpse of the bruises that Shoemaker-Levy 9 left on Jupiter -- the most prominent features ever seen on the giant planet -- and others are thronging to observatories and planetariums to see what all the fuss was about. Scientists who last week barely had time to sleep, let alone think, are finally turning their attention away from spectacular pictures and starting the long, difficult process of seeing what they can learn from the great comet crash of 1994. Says Keith Noll, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science...
Clinton cannot distance himself from the issue without seeming even more confused in the eyes of the rest of the world. Clinton helped create this monster, and because Haiti is in "our backyard" it won't go away until the administration confronts...