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...wrong with this picture. Regions of the universe that had slightly higher density when the light broke free -- the areas that later accreted under gravity to form the galaxies and clusters -- should be detectable as slightly warmer regions of the background radiation. Yet the radiation has been analyzed in detail -- most recently by the Cosmic Background Explorer satellite -- and its temperature is utterly uniform. Meanwhile, powerful telescopes have revealed unexpected agglomerations of galaxies tens of millions of light-years across. How could such giant structures have arisen from the smooth-textured aftermath of the Big Bang...
THREE BLIND MICE: HOW THE TV NETWORKS LOST THEIR WAY by Ken Auletta (Random House; $25). It's no secret that CBS, NBC and ABC began hitting the skids in the mid-1980s; this long book reports the high-level pratfalls in meticulous and sometimes gossipy detail...
...Reports within the Soviet Union and from Western intelligence sources differed in detail, but agreed in essence: the armed forces would not carry out any order to attack. One story was that senior army commanders had met secretly Tuesday night and decided they would not storm the White House or countenance any firing at civilians...
...there are indications that Routh was not his only victim. According to his court-appointed attorney, Fred Lusk, Evans has told police about two prostitutes he claims to have killed in Florida in 1985. Pieces of evidence gathered in Fort Lauderdale and Daytona Beach, Lusk said, "basically match in detail what Evans told investigators." Evans says that most of his victims were women, and that he strangled and sexually assaulted many of them. He claims that he can lead investigators to "every one" of his victims...
...bishop's accuser is David Figueroa, 32, a cook living in Florida who has tested HIV-positive. He first made charges against Ferrario anonymously in 1989 and went public on Geraldo Rivera's TV show last year. Now he has decided to try to make his charges stick, in detail and under oath. "No amount of money will make up for what he's taken from me," says Figueroa. "He used me. He ruined my life...