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...John Cloud. With reporting by Edward Barnes
...silence on the behavior of gravitation at very short distances. The final theory will let us answer the deepest questions of cosmology: Was there a beginning to the present expansion of the universe? What determined the conditions at the beginning? And is what we call our universe, the expanding cloud of matter and radiation extending billions of light-years in all directions, really all there is, or is it only one part of a much larger universe in which the expansion we see is just a local episode...
...Many analysts say a gray cloud has been hovering over the NASDAQ since New Year's, one noticed by institutional investors but not by the individual investors caught up in ongoing enthusiasm for all things Internet. Throw in the promise of continued interest rate hikes by Fed chairman Alan Greenspan and it adds up to a major correction waiting to happen. A correction is generally held to be a 10-percentage-point drop-off. At its low point Tuesday, the NASDAQ was off about 25 percent from its high...
...Every cloud has a silver lining, even a puff of exhaust. For some folks, there's a brighter side to the higher price of gasoline...
...This is certainly good for Jewish gays," notes TIME staff writer John Cloud, who reports on homosexual rights issues. "I don't think any other denominations are interested in doing something like this, but the move does carry some symbolic weight for all gays. It's another little step...