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...skies that rank among the clearest and darkest on Earth, Mauna Kea offers an unsurpassed view of the heavens--and that's why, despite the harsh conditions, astronomers can't wait to visit. Stargazers come here from around the world to answer some of the deepest mysteries of the cosmos: When in the depths of time did galaxies first flare into existence, and what made it happen? What is the elusive dark matter whose mass dominates the universe? How many stars have planets--and do those alien worlds harbor intelligent life...
...first living will was written in the U.S. to prevent overtreatment, 1 in 10 dying Americans said in a survey that his wishes were ignored. Too often, in the words of the Rev. George Caldwell, who ministers to the dying in Virginia, people die in "the final, tiny, helpless cosmos of a hospital...
...honor of that out-of-this-world event, the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., has--what else?--launched a new website called HubbleSite hubble.stsci.edu) where surfers can study the telescope's history, browse Hubble trivia (it has circled Earth 58,400 times), learn more about the cosmos and, of course, view some of the spectacular images the telescope has collected. Quasars and pulsars and supernovas...
...this newborn century--in which accumulating evidence points toward a multiuniverse cosmos where component universes, our own included, are continually created and die--your cosmic analysis can be summed up with some very brief words: What a lot of crap! JAMES C. RITCHIE Glasgow...
Juliette Beck, 27, is as close to a bigwig as the movement has, but even she feels like a tiny link in the wired cosmos of antiglobalism. An organizer for Global Exchange, a San Francisco-based human-rights group, Beck arrived in Washington fresh from a 20-city road show that was organized largely via e-mail. "We got housing and food for nine people on the road," she says. "The events and the nonviolence training and the political theater--the Internet made it possible." Beck, who planned to demonstrate in costume along with 20 others in her "affinity group...