Word: bohdan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BOHDAN ZACHARY, A HOLLYWOOD producer for the cable channel E! Entertainment, has embellished his life-style with credit-card slips. He vacationed in Paris, London and Hawaii, dined at Beverly Hills restaurants and splurged on computer programs and compact discs. But Zachary, 39, recently canceled three of his four credit cards and has begun to pay off the $20,000 he piled up in plastic debt. He is also rethinking his holiday shopping list. "I'll be much more practical and much less extravagant," Zachary says. "I'll just buy things that people really need or want...
Still, they were worth looking for, if only to prove they weren't there, and Princeton astronomer Bohdan Paczynski had proposed an ingenious way to conduct the search. Albert Einstein showed in his general theory of relativity that the gravity from a star will bend rays of light that pass nearby. In principle, he said, a star could act as a lens, focusing and brightening the light of another star directly behind it. If a cloud of small stars or big planets really is orbiting the Milky Way, some of them should occasionally pass in front of stars...
None of this means the Big Bang is the ultimate truth. Someone could come along tomorrow with a better explanation for the known facts, and that would delight astronomers. Says Princeton astrophysicist Bohdan Paczynski, a Big Bang supporter: "I'd love to disprove the Big Bang myself. It would make me instantly famous. But the evidence is just not there...
...Ukrainians take it as a good sign that Bush received Boris Yeltsin in Washington last week. Bohdan Horyn, a former political prisoner who is now a Rukh member of parliament, welcomes what he sees as the Administration's new "double-track policy" aimed both at Moscow and at the republics. "The West," he says, "must not help the center at the expense of those of us who are trying to leave the empire...