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...long after the air has cooled. Inside, a 30-in. telescope begins a laborious computer-controlled search of the heavens, covering only a tiny patch of sky during the next six hours of darkness. And the following day, at the nearby University of California campus in Berkeley, Physicist Richard Muller, like a seer divining entrails, scrutinizes the new batch of video recordings from Lafayette. He seeks a sign of a dim star that many scientists think does not exist: Nemesis, the death star, a possible companion...
...could it be that the permutations of life on earth are governed not by comets or death stars but by something more old-fashioned--like the fates? Although Shoemaker and Walter Alvarez do not consider themselves superstitious, they recently found reason to rethink their beliefs. During a visit to Berkeley, Shoemaker had roundly blasted the Nemesis idea, so Alvarez took him to a Chinese restaurant for a further discussion of Muller's model. After dinner, Alvarez cracked open his fortune cookie, pulled out the paper strip, glanced at it and, suppressing a laugh, handed it to Shoemaker. It read...
...revolution began with an unassuming element known as iridium, a rare and hard silvery-white metal related to platinum and gold. In the spring of 1977, Geologist Walter Alvarez of the University of California, Berkeley, was carefully chiseling through the rocks outside Gubbio, a medieval Italian town halfway between Florence and Rome, seeking clues to continental drift. Gubbio has long been an appealing site to geologists and paleontologists because its rocks provide a complete geological record of the critical boundary line between the end of the Cretaceous period, when the dinosaurs disappeared, and the Tertiary period, which followed...
With his face visibly tightened and grim, he yelled into the SDS member's microphone. "I spent four of the happiest years at the Berkeley campus doing some of the same things you're doing here." But there was one important difference. "I was tougher and more courteous...
Ellsberg is also concerned with the antinuclear movement and Central America. The onetime Rand Corp. analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers, Ellsberg, 54, lives in Kensington, Calif., near Berkeley. He was a founder of the Mobilization for Survival, a coalition of antinuke groups, and in 1978 joined a sit-in to blockade the Rocky Flats nuclear installation in Colorado. Ellsberg is a traveling college lecturer, telling audiences that the undeclared war syndrome is recurring. "The time for a new Viet Nam seems certainly at hand," he says. "In Central America we are at about the 1961 stage of involvement...