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Last week the Supreme Court vigorously reasserted the U.S.'s historic barrier between church and state. By a resounding eight-man majority, it declared unconstitutional the ambitious aid programs of both Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. The decision (Lemon v. Kurtzman) struck many legal observers as a sign that a number of other current aid schemes would come in for close scrutiny. In its probable impact on schools, Lemon is likely to be surpassed only by the court's historic decisions on racial desegregation. It seemed certain to accelerate the end of the comprehensive parochial school as millions...
...next thing I knew, he was throwing daggers at her," said Richard. "What we didn't know," said Elizabeth, "was that the knife thrower was saying: Is anyone brave enough to take a chance with my daggers?' Those knives really thumped around. Richard suddenly jumped over the barrier into the ring. I shouted to him to stop. I don't know what he thought he could do." What he could do was get into the act -with a balloon in his mouth and another in his hand for the man to burst. "That knife thrower must have...
While an earthbound observer could not see such a deeply submerged island of hydrogen, the three men concluded, he probably could detect some indirect evidence of its existence. Because the huge mass would act as a barrier against the hot, rising currents characteristic of the Jovian atmosphere, the area above the solidified hydrogen would be relatively calm and free of the white ammonia clouds that cover much of the planet. As a result, the observer would be able to see much farther into the atmosphere and perceive the deep red at its lower depths...
...Concorde engines whined to life in familiar high-pitched fashion, and the plane rolled slowly toward the end of the runway. I was twelve minutes away from personally breaking the sound barrier. Unlike the Boeing 707 and 747, which lumber into slowly gathering momentum, the Concorde has a sprinter's start. I was pushed gently but firmly into my backrest. From the rear of the plane I could see the nose leave the ground, tilting upward and upward until the fuselage looked like a tipping tunnel of love. From the inside, the noise was no louder than that...
Within twelve minutes we were over the outskirts of Le Havre. It was 9 a.m. when we broke the sound barrier-Mach 1. Up there it comes with a whimper, not a bang. I had to be told that we had passed Mach 1 cruising at 30,000 feet; we felt only a slight whisper of movement, hardly a shudder, as the plane continued to climb...