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After a year of the most intensive search ever mounted to detect radio signals from extraterrestrial civilizations, astronomers from the University of California, Berkeley, have picked up 164 signals -- out of 30 trillion recorded -- that "bear further investigation." This doesn't mean that E.T.s have been found, only that these anomalies have not yet been otherwise explained...
Fazio, also a lecturer in the Astronomy Department, says he expects the telescope to be launched by the year 2002. He hopes the telescope will enable scientists to detect of planets clustered around stars as well as the study of early galaxy formation, or "cosmic birth...
...speaks fluidly and with candor, and there isn't even a sliver of personal animosity in his voice, but it's easy to detect the contempt with which Clarke views Harvard's institutional opinion of boxing...
...Clintonites for getting to hang out with Streisand & Co. Washington reporters' lust for proximity to stars is at least as intense as the Clintons' (it's the journalists who shamelessly drag trophy stars to the White House correspondents' dinner every spring), so naturally they are quick to detect a groupie instinct in Clinton, and to give a knee-jerk, pseudo-high-minded critique. But isn't George Will a TV performer? And is Sam Donaldson more profound than Richard Dreyfuss...
...other way: he has plenty of time to recover from his error-filled start. Still, intimates say Clinton has been "sobered" by "how fast and how far he has fallen." Though most of them continue to insist the President seems to enjoy tough challenges, his advisers say they can detect the stress. Says one confidant: "He says he is fine. But he doesn't sound fine...