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...answer may be provided by a fantastic new theory reported last week in the Dutch journal Physics Letters B. In their report, two renowned Princeton scientists and a graduate student suggest that the pressure of electromagnetic radiation, emanating from dense "threads" of pure energy called cosmic strings, could have been responsible for making the universe lumpy. That pressure, the theory holds, pushed matter outward, piling it into thin shells and leaving huge voids in the cosmos. "If this theory is correct," says Astrophysicist Jeremiah Ostriker, the theory's co-author, "our views about cosmic-scale structure will be radically changed...
With the characters changing cosmic eras and lifetimes as often as they do, this play is extremely taxing for the performers. Since The Skin Of Our Teeth is both a classic play and a complex one, it's good material to work with and easy material to mess up. Fortunately, Jonathan Tolins' directing keeps an unstructured, multi-faceted play extremely coherent. Oleson and Clark are strong centers to a strong cast where even those playing minor roles are impressive--in particular, Mary Beth Hewitt as the grace-under-pressure and deadpan stage manager...
Besides, Harvard is not all a matter of social problems and cosmic issues. Some Harvard graduates with very long memories still recall the day when Lothrop Withington Jr., '42, swallowed a goldfish to win a $10 bet and set off a national fad that is better forgotten. Others will always remember the day in 1968 when mighty Yale was leading by 29-13 with only 42 seconds remaining in the Game, and then all kinds of incredible things began happening. The Crimson headline next day: HARVARD WINS, 29-29. Others remember less epic events: sculling on the Charles, drinking...
...that reason, the immense catalog of data gathered by the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) was an ideal place to start. Although the satellite operated for only ten months in 1983, it sent back information on more than a quarter-million cosmic sources of infrared radiation. One of them was in the constellation Ophiuchus, some 520 light-years away. "What the IRAS survey indicated," says Team Astronomer Bruce Wilking of the University of Missouri, "was that this source was 40 degrees above absolute zero (-233 degreesC), extremely cold by our standards but warm enough by interstellar | standards that...
...matter of cosmic toys for scientists. If we don't keep pioneering out there, others will shove us aside -- and anybody who cares to notice can already feel the elbows...