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...Tyson, an astrophysicist and the director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City, triggered an international furor when he decreed that in his prestigious establishment Pluto would no longer be listed as a planet. Henceforth, it would be considered just another ball of ice in the Kuiper Belt, a swarm of debris orbiting the sun out beyond Neptune. He was on firm scientific ground: many professional astronomers have been leaning that way for years. But people evidently had a soft spot for the runt of the planetary litter. Almost overnight, Tyson became the Grinch Who Stole Pluto...
...miles from the sun. A second group of comets, according to Gerard Kuiper (a Dutch American), must come from closer in, falling sunward from the disk-shaped cloud of icy chunks just beyond Neptune that bears his name. Sure enough, when astronomers trained their telescopes on the Kuiper Belt 15 years ago, they started finding all sorts of objects. In the past few years, Brown and Trujillo have been turning up some pretty big ones, including Quaoar (about half the size of Pluto) in 2002 and Sedna (probably a bit bigger than that...
...street-art images, a black-and-white face of the late professional wrestler Andre the Giant with OBEY printed beneath. In a world in which we all feel subordinate to something, it was the ultimate generic image of creepy domination. It's now on T shirts, bags and a belt buckle that has been spotted on Ashton Kutcher. Today Fairey has a graphic-design firm, a gallery space and a licensing deal for Obey clothing, posters and stickers...
...elite America is a time of great suffering. Admissions porn litters the living rooms of millions of ambitious families, most of them in a state of nervous collapse. College-bound seniors exhaust saliva from the sheer fatigue of sealing envelopes, frantically competing for seats on the Great Meritocratic Conveyor Belt...
...volleyball team looking to get in the win column against its first Ivy League opponent not named Dartmouth. But after suffering two losses to the Big Green earlier in the season, the Crimson (3-11, 0-4 Ivy) awoke Sunday morning with two more conference losses under its belt, as it dropped road matches against Penn and Princeton by scores of 3-1 and 3-0, respectively. Even with a slow Ivy start, optimism is the mood in Cambridge. “We want to win a lot more games this season, and we think that’s actually...