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...that blend and clash throughout the state. This is the land where Asian dragons dance at Cinco de Mayo parades, where viewers can tune in the evening news spoken in Tagalog, where suburban developers study the ancient Chinese concept of feng shui to ensure harmonious building design and smooth cosmic energy flow. It is not the Beach Boys or the Eagles or the Grateful Dead who provide the voice of California today; it is Los Lobos, a Mexican-American rock band. Amy Tan novels and Boyz N the Hood are the artifacts of the new United States of California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shades of Difference | 11/18/1991 | See Source »

...shop, a refinished basement adorned with cosmic photographs and pottery as well as several lively and colorful parrots, seems to be the type of quirky, esoteric store that many lament is quickly disappearing from Harvard Square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Inman Square: a neighborhood's traditional business community makes the painful move to a more modern economy. | 10/29/1991 | See Source »

Many experts thought the record a fluke, unlikely to be repeated. At 7,347 ft. above sea level, Mexico City was perfect for a leap into history, but just ! that once. The Red Sea parts only under extremely specific cosmic circumstances. Beamon never got close to his record again, nor did he quite figure out how he did it. All others who tried failed. Until last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Up, Up and Out of Sight! | 9/9/1991 | See Source »

...mainly from lab experiments showing that electromagnetic forces can pull hot gases into distinct structures. Most astrophysicists dismiss this idea, but alternative schemes offered by mainstream thinkers are almost as wild. Many groups are exploring the idea that the Big Bang created strange energy formations, largely undetectable in the cosmic background radiation, variously dubbed cosmic strings, global textures or cosmological constants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Bang Under Fire | 9/2/1991 | See Source »

...Bang theory remains essentially intact because it is based on + three fundamental pieces of evidence, none of which can be accounted for by any competing model. The first is the cosmic background radiation: its evenness and the mix of electromagnetic wavelengths it contains can only have come about, as far as anybody knows, if the universe was once dense, hot and small. The second is the fact that the universe is expanding. Calculating backward, one easily concludes that all the galaxies must have come from a single point. Finally there is the fact that hydrogen makes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Bang Under Fire | 9/2/1991 | See Source »

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