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...Harvard/Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, one of the new theory's pioneers, and his colleagues, including-John Stauffer of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Canada, have shown that stars spin at various speeds during their lifetimes. These scientists are currently devoting much of their energy and time to decipering this curious behavior...
...reasons for this curious ostracism are ingrained in local tradition. It has been much the same for wildlife officers assigned to Meeker and some other rural areas in the past. For one thing, a big part of Madison's job is catching people who violate the fish and game laws. He hands out an average of 60 fines a year for offenses ranging from fishing without a license ($50) to illegal possession of an elk ($400). That riles Meekerites, who hate the thought of having their freedoms fenced in by government regulators...
...operative difference, of course, is that Williams achieves a special power by combining all three, melding them into something more than the sum of the parts. The current production of Vieux Carre at the Mainstage takes advantage of this curious union, and its presentation closely mirrors both the strengths and weaknesses of one of Williams' last plays...
Something that Winston Churchill once said of democracy applies to that curious instrument of democracy, the presidential campaign debate: "In this world of sin and woe," it is the worst of all possible systems, except for any alternative that has yet been tried. Sunday night Ronald Reagan and Walter Mondale provided occasional valuable indications about how they would handle the vital foreign policy and defense issues that the nation will face in the next four years, but they did so only sporadically and, it sometimes seemed, unintentionally. The debate, like the entire campaign, encouraged generalizations, evasions, safe (as opposed...
...curious portents were explained last Saturday as officials unveiled one of the most radical schemes for economic growth in the 35-year history of the People's Republic. After 618 delegates had gathered behind closed doors for seven days during what was officially known as the Third Plenum of the Twelfth Central Committee, Chinese leaders released a 16,000-word resolution outlining a complex package of new economic reforms. The program consolidated Deng's five-year attempt to promote a free-market system in the countryside. More important, the new scheme extended those reforms to the long-stagnant...