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Unexpected fundraising success and stringent belt-tightening have put the Graduate School of Education in the black, despite earlier projections that it would finish the last fiscal year with as much as a $400,000 deficit...
...armed insurrection from the outlawed Communist New People's Army. For weeks, defense forces have been waging widely publicized raids on N.P.A. strongholds in the countryside, partly to create public support for the government; Marcos was photographed during one operation wearing fatigues with a pistol strapped to his belt...
...astronomers have now probed behind that celestial curtain and found a spectacular feature that has never before been closely observed: a band of gas 10 to 20 light-years thick, seemingly composed of lacy filaments, stretching up to 600 light-years above the plane of the Milky Way. The belt is the first hint that an enormous magnetic field may be far more important in shaping the core of the galaxy than had previously been imagined. Scientists have yet to gauge the full impact of the finding, but it could undermine existing theories about star formation at the galactic center...
...magnetic field, if it exists, defies scientists' notions about proper celestial behavior. Perhaps even more baffling to astronomers, the belt of gas rises up at a right angle to the plane of the Milky Way, an extraordinary position for a magnetic field; normally it should lie in the galactic plane, its lines of force trapped like hair around a drain. Attempting to account for the bizarre properties of the field, some scientists are postulating the existence of a "dynamo" at the center of the galaxy, a source of relentless energy. But investigators cannot ascribe the dynamo to any known...
...flying dragon and huge stone eater make the Star Wars aliens look like extras in a latenight Japanese horror movie. Unfortunately, these outstanding visual effects mostly appear in the first 20 minutes. After that, the audience sees a lot of deserted beaches, a crumbling temple and an asteroid belt...