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...estimate of 11 sec. It was that inconsistency that Garisto found -- a discovery that was promptly confirmed by other physicists. The mistake has no bearing on Newton's theory, but its discovery was enough to earn Garisto, who graduated last week, a prize from the University of Chicago's chapter of Sigma Xi, the national scientific honor society...
...Fifth Amendment guarantees that private property shall not "be taken for public use, without just compensation." Exactly what those words mandate has been a subject of heated debate and much litigation for almost two centuries. In a controversial decision last week, the U.S. Supreme Court opened a major new chapter in the already bulging lawbooks dealing with confiscation. The ruling is virtually certain to render the field even more treacherously complex and to create pounding headaches for local planning authorities, environmentalists and historical preservationists across the nation...
...goodbye to it all," said Bakker, who nevertheless let it be known that he would take back his old job should Fundamentalist Preacher Jerry Falwell, who succeeded Bakker as head of PTL, have a change of heart. On Friday Falwell's PTL ministry filed for reorganization under Chapter 11, citing $71 million worth of debts owed to 1,400 creditors. "The ministry is not in the buildings," said Bakker. "If the buildings are gone, I can preach in the streets if I have to." He just may. Falwell gave the Bakkers three days to move...
...Leslie Frewin's The Late Mrs. Dorothy Parker revisits this pith and pathos more grandiloquently but less methodically than John Keats' 1970 volume You Might As Well Live, on which Frewin substantially relies. Just how much is hard to tell, for the new book has neither footnotes nor a chapter-by-chapter list of sources, and its sense of chronology is, to put it politely, approximate. What Frewin adds is a culling of choice Parkeriana, a well- considered if clumsily executed effort to evoke the pop-culture context of her times and a brief, provocative assessment of her talents. Parker...
Elizabeth McKinsey '70, president of Radcliffe College's Iota chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, to which Ueno was elected in the fall of her junior year as one of the "Junior Twelve," describes the senior as the perfect marshall for that organization "because she's already a scholar...