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Edmunds plays it too safe, letting his emotions dry as if they were Lascaux's cave paintings, sensitive to light and life. He forgets that his work is contemporary, the worth of its preservation has yet to be proven. Hidden in distant caves it loses, its chance for glory...
Meanwhile, Professors of Astronomy Margaret J.Geller and John P. Huchra are measuring thespectra and velocity of distant galaxies at theWhipple Observatory. The pair plans to create athree-dimensional map of galaxy distributionacross the universe. Their unexpected resultsindicate that the universe is made up of giantbubble-like voids, whose boundaries are wheregalaxies reside...
...confession that Gingrich had called the First Lady "a bitch." "Connie Chung should apologize," Newt said. And then, at Newt's moment of triumph, Bob Gingrich, his father, chose not to join in a standing ovation. Newt has admitted that his relationship with his adoptive father has always been distant. Newt had called Bob a few weeks earlier to break the ice. "I want to thank you for being an influence in my life," said the Speaker-to-be. "You had a great deal to do with me being where I am today." Bob Gingrich could only listen in silence...
...spectrum and Australia on the other. Because Australia's aborigines and sub-Saharan Africans share such superficial traits as skin color and body shape, they were widely assumed to be closely related. But their genes tell a different story. Of all humans, Australians are most distant from the Africans and most closely resemble their neighbors, the southeast Asians. What the eye sees as racial differences -- between Europeans and Africans, for example -- are mainly adaptations to climate as humans moved from one continent to another...
Having placed the Earth in proper perspective, Sagan launches his own Grand Tour of just about everything in space that surrounds it. Elegantly and appealingly, he surveys the current state of knowledge about the solar system, nearby stars, distant galaxies and even the very edge of the universe. As he describes each heavenly body or cosmic phenomenon, the author imparts a healthy dose of science, making it palatable to the lay reader by using jargon-free English buoyed by emotion and humor...