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When the visitors continued to bang on the door for about fifteen minutes, Gilchrist said he called the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD...

Author: By Richard M. Burnes, | Title: Police Called in Advocate Fracas | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

...lies along a universal axis which runs north to south through the earth and towards the constellation Aquila, although their data did not permit them to say which constellation is in the north and which is in the south. The finding may also provide a challenge to the "Big Bang" theory that says that the universe was born and expanded in a completely symmetrical fashion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Side Up | 4/18/1997 | See Source »

...enjoy robust faith without envisaging faith's ultimate consummation? "Heaven is the greatest good," says Peter Kreeft, a professor of philosophy at Boston College and author of the 1990 volume Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Heaven...but Never Dreamed of Asking. "It is the reason that God banged out the Big Bang 18 billion years ago. Next to the idea of God, the idea of heaven is the greatest idea that has ever entered into the heart of man, woman or child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOES HEAVEN EXIST? | 3/24/1997 | See Source »

Although he made a bigger bang than any other nuclear whistle blower, Galatis feels more like a victim than a hero. He behaved honorably, and the industry responded by killing his career. "After the TIME article appeared, I became a target," he says. "People hated me. I'd walk into the cafeteria at Millstone and sit down at a table, and everyone else would get up and leave. I felt marked, shunned, fearful." He got anonymous phone calls and installed a caller-ID system, which traced them back to Millstone. At night in his car he was sure people were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NUCLEAR SAFETY FALLOUT | 3/17/1997 | See Source »

DIED. ROBERT DICKE, 80, early proponent of the Big Bang theory of the creation of the universe who mounted a persuasive but ultimately unsuccessful challenge to Einstein's general theory of relativity; in Princeton, New Jersey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Mar. 17, 1997 | 3/17/1997 | See Source »

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