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...they do show enormous jets of gas blasting out of the young suns at speeds of up to 300 miles per sec. and with enough force to propel them trillions of miles into deep space. One of the pictures is a surprisingly clear portrait of a fast-spinning, disk-shaped cloud of cosmic debris that may serve as the raw material for a solar system in eons to come. Says astronomer Chris Burrows at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland: "It sends shivers down my spine when I realize what we're looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE VIOLENCE OF CREATION | 6/19/1995 | See Source »

...element is the spinning disk. As a cloud of gas and dust collapses under gravity, it spins faster and faster, like a figure skater pulling his arms in against his body as he goes into a rapid whirl. The accelerating rotation, in turn, makes the cloud flatten out into a pancake, with the highest density in the center, where the star starts to form. Unlike a solid disk -- a CD, for example -- this one rotates faster in the center than at the edges. The star, pulling in more matter as it grows more massive, should spin the fastest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE VIOLENCE OF CREATION | 6/19/1995 | See Source »

...make my proposal selflessly, objectively, recognizing that from a programming standpoint, Windows isn't exactly poetry. It's counterintuitive and clunky, which is peculiar after all these years. Microsoft, you'll recall, came into being when Gates licensed to IBM his Disk Operating System, or DOS, which was supposed to make PCs easier to use. Later, Windows was supposed to make DOS easier to use. And a few months ago, Microsoft unleashed something called Bob, a program that's supposed to make Windows easier to use. Until a Bob helper is born, you can look forward to reading -- I swear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHY EMPEROR BILL SHOULD RULE | 6/5/1995 | See Source »

...Rembrandts. He was listening to a tape of the theme song for a TV show called Friends, which he and Danny Wilde had been asked to record. But after they added their two cents to the song, he got to like it. So did a Nashville disk jockey, who put the 42-second clip from the hit show on the air. The resulting clamor convinced the heretofore subcult-following duo that they ought to add the song to their third album, LP. And now the folks from Friends, including JENNIFER ANISTON, COURTENEY COX and LISA KUDROW are helping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 5, 1995 | 6/5/1995 | See Source »

...million in illegal software as well as $1 million in cash. They had also arrested eight suspects, and are looking for the man they believe is the ringleader of the major Microsoft-bootlegging ring. If only the folks at Microsoft could train a dog to sniff floppy-disk residue on dollars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HOTTEST SOFTWARE IN TOWN | 6/5/1995 | See Source »

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