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WASHINGTON: It's universally true: You can't go home again, ever. The universe, which has been expanding at a constant rate since its inception with the "Big Bang," is not ultimately headed for collapse. It will expand forever. Scientists now say that the "Big Crunch" theory, which holds that the universe will finally compress itself into a tiny ball of unimaginable density, appears to have been flawed all along...
...theory went like this: as the price of whiz-bang computers falls, demand will rise even faster. Looks like the theory was actually right. By autumn PC makers from Compaq to Hewlett-Packard to IBM were offering robust multimedia machines for less than $1,000--and nearly a third of all new PCs sold fell into that range...
...dismal one for Broadway musicals--the off year between Rent and The Lion King--but it did produce one underrated gem, this tale of seedy Times Square before it got Disneyfied. Complain about the cliched book if you must, but few musicals are this hard-edged and slam-bang entertaining at the same time. And few songwriters can still turn out showstoppers like Cy Coleman...
...Studying] radio waves left over from the Big Bang is the best way to do it," Das said. "And Cambridge has the best program...
...dollar prices are as common as bugs on a bayou pickup's windshield. You need eight figures to make news, and even then it may not work. The early results of the fall auction season--which began last week and will continue through this week--confirm this: one big bang, and not much else. The bang was afforded by the collection of works by Picasso (plus some by Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and other American artists) put together over 50 years, on a fairly modest budget, by Victor and Sally Ganz. It was one of the more famous American private...