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...mood of these astronomical party poopers is to discard planets, not to find them; the children of tomorrow shall grow up to find all planets found, all lands mapped--all mysteries revealed as mundane facts. The new worlds we now seek ring not our own, but faint and distant suns--poor substitutes for Galileo's heirs...
...Samara owners, distant relatives of the sister of the artist's widow, "just wanted to get rid of it," says another art historian who also saw the painting in Samara. For years, they had hidden it from bandits-at one point in a kgb safe, at another in a crate of potatoes. They were convinced that whoever kept the painting met with misfortune, and with good reason: the young man who brought the canvas to the bank disappeared for days afterward only to resurface in a battered, confused state, the victim of a shakedown by racketeers...
Those in attendance wanted more classes, visiting professors, and eventually full professors, with the distant goal of a department to focus on Ethnic or Asian American studies, they said...
...month, holding up a blank sheet of white paper. That, he says, is all you can see in winter on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge's coastal plain--just "snow and ice." So what could be wrong with drilling for oil in such a bleak, deserted region in the distant northeastern corner of Alaska? There is nothing there...
...took Northeastern to overtime in the Beanpot final, and the Eagles beat the Crimson 7-2 in 1996, but the two programs have taken off in strikingly opposite directions since then. The Eagles are dead last in the ECAC, and a first-ever Beanpot title seems as distant as ever for them...