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Virgo is a cluster of galaxies located near the center of the Milky Way's supercluster...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: Research Points to Younger Universe, New Value for Astronomical Constant | 11/13/1979 | See Source »

...York's Manufacturers Hanover admitted to causing the error. The bank blamed employees' unfamiliarity with a new form used for deposit reports to the Fed. Despite its cluster of computers, the multinational giant was as fallible as any citizen trying to balance a checkbook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Fed Foul-Up | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...microwave smile that warms another person without heat. His feeling for America is long and loving. Milton Eisenhower, the last of that remarkable cluster of Kansas boys, turned 80 the other day and wished he could sculpt a U.S. President out of proven parts. He would weld his brother Dwight's heart bone to Franklin Roosevelt's head bone. What a work of political art that might be, he chuckles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: The Last of the Eisenhowers | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...other hand, still believes a small group of "neighbors kicked the hell out of" the proposal and that "the citizens of Cambridge screwed themselves." Jonathan Moore, director of the Institute of Politics, hopes the library will be successful, adding that "any sense of disappointment of not having the whole cluster is well behind us." Some city officials, meanwhile, remain bitterly disappointed--officials who might agree with Crane's position: "October 20 is a day of mourning as far as Cambridge is concerned...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: The Library That Got Away | 10/12/1979 | See Source »

They have only one thing to do and they do it only once, mating in mid-air and then dying a horrible death. The female workers sometimes feed the young 1.300 times a day. When they dislike or distrust their leader, they cluster closely around her and crush or sting her to death. It is a process long known as "balling the queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Sting | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

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