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...gravitational pull becomes so intense that no light or other radiation can escape from it. Thus the star cannot be detected by conventional observations. It becomes a black hole, or as Cameron calls it, a "collapsar." If a star-crossed spaceship ever strayed close enough to such a cosmic abyss, it would be drawn immediately into it and vanish completely from sight...
...plan. It would have been impossible to do this without fancy modern code name plans. And there was such a plan. It's named Prometheus. So Plan Prometheus, what is it? That's a NATO plan. I don't know whether it's in the category of cosmic or not, but it's definitely a NATO plan. It had been, according to recent information, revised-it's an emergency contingency plan-it had been revised in Washington, at the Pentagon, about three months before the coup, updated. And it was on computer tape. This is the first computerized coup...
Ideally in the Houses, "historical truth, scientific discovery, mathematical deduction, cosmic theory, medical research, sociological and economic revolution and the gracious humanities appear at the breakfast table as vital and important as the citizen's daily does of crime and disappointment."-David McCord, quoted in Information about Radcliffe...
Historical truth is a concept whose validity I have generally doubted. Scientific discovery is Progress, while mathematical deduction is Poetry, neither category being fitting for anybody's breakfast table. About cosmic theory you shouldn't ask. Medical research is probably a Good Thing, although Michael Crichton is not. To s. and e. revolution, of course, right on. The gracious humanities are My Field at Harvard, and as such inseparable from my daily does of disappointment. Crime is a confusing issue...
...humorous counterpoint to his deadpan account of a violent peace demonstration that took place just outside Fort Dix, N.J., on Armed Forces Day 1970. Between the public relations game of a peacetime Army and the pitched battles of war-sick civilians, a decade of change is neatly revealed. Nothing cosmic, only a clear, courteous reminder of how much things have changed...