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When the sense of mystery is abolished, when the truly awesome gets replaced by the merely cute, we don't stop wanting to feel the goose bumps of cosmic wonder. We just pack up our curiosity about the universe and trundle it off to a place like Roswell, N.M., where a few unanswered questions are still allowed to live a furtive life. Though even there the wondrous quickly collapses into kitsch--T shirts and coffee mugs featuring darling little almond-eyed fetuses from space...
...childhood as an orphan; and when she finally meets the Vegans, they take the shape of long-lost Dad--to make it "easier" for her. Apparently our kind can handle only so much strangeness at a time: we travel for light-years, down through the raging chaos of cosmic wormholes, only to arrive on the set of The Waltons...
...more cosmic question loomed as the two sides broke off talks last weekend. Did the Teamster strike presage a new militancy by unions or would it prove to be just one more indication of how limited their clout is? With fears of downsizing and layoffs still rampant, unions staged only 37 walkouts involving 1,000 or more workers last year, in contrast to 231 major strikes in 1976. "If the Teamsters can't deliver [a winning settlement] on this one," says Charles Craver, a labor expert at the George Washington University law school, "organized labor is in big trouble...
...grandeur of high Angkor sculpture can be sensed from the biggest fragment in the show, the head and shoulders of a colossal bronze dating from the 11th century. When complete, the figure must have been 20 ft. long: Vishnu Anantasayin, the god Vishnu in cosmic sleep, reclining on the back of the serpent Ananta, afloat on the primordial ocean. It was found by French archaeologists 60 years ago in the western baray (reservoir) of Angkor--a man-made lake five miles long--and despite its corroded and battered state, its missing eyebrows and moustache (which would have been gold...
...performance artists but astronomers--albeit amateur ones. Recruited largely via the Internet, they were helping the astronomical pros study the occultation--or eclipse--of Aldebaran, an observation that could lead to a more precise estimate of the moon's diameter. That figure in turn could serve as a cosmic yardstick by which to measure other heavenly bodies...