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...Francisco State University astronomers Geoffrey Marcy and Paul Butler, has thrown an almost wholly speculative area of study solidly into the realm of tangible fact. Despite years of searching with the most powerful telescopes, despite decades of listening for the faint crackle of radio signals from distant civilizations, despite endless theorizing about how life might or might not arise, nobody had ever found concrete evidence to suggest that our planet, our civilization, our life-forms were anything but unique in the cosmos...
...that life necessarily exists on either of the new planets. The question is impossible to settle with today's technology, and if organisms do inhabit these distant worlds they would be a bizarre sort of life, proceeding from birth to death, generation after generation, without ever touching solid ground...
...long before we find out. Energized by the latest discoveries, astronomers are racing back to their telescopes for more observations and to their computers to analyze years' worth of data still sitting in their disk drives. Everyone wants to be the next to find a distant world. The scientists are eagerly awaiting the results from the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO), a newly orbiting European satellite that can detect the faint heat from distant planets. They're looking forward to the 1997 installation of a new infrared camera on the Hubble Space Telescope, which could take a picture of at least...
...January 24 Crimson, Michael P. Berry, the director of Harvard Dining Services, encouraged first-year students to eat at "the more distant houses" during inter-session because "[i]t will be a good experience for them to shop around...
...time, 700 Quad residents raised objections to the plan and some attacked Fox for being overly officious and distant...