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...example, the small Canaday mosque is the seventh location Muslim undergraduates have been forced into in the past six months, according to two students' count. Students have had to use locations from the Straus Hall common room to Memorial Hall to distant Vanserg Hall, which is 20 minutes' walk from the Yard...
...embracing it. Now the tiny mass can soak up all the nutrients it needs to become a solid tumor and a major, life-threatening menace. Not much can stop it from growing until its cells spread, or metastasize, throughout the body, traveling along those same blood vessels to far-distant points in the lungs, bones and brain...
...died and gone to tabloid heaven. Enquirer staff members arrived on the scene outside Nicole's Brentwood home at about the same time as the Los Angeles coroner, and since then as many as 20 reporters have been running down everyone even tangentially connected to the case, dogging distant relatives for photos and dangling cash in front of household employees and store clerks. In fact the Enquirer has pursued the O.J. story so aggressively that it has in some instances become the story, posing ethical dilemmas for both the courts and the mainstream press...
...moons, the U.S. spacecraft Voyager 2 had by 1990 completed its Grand Tour of the planets and was speeding out into deep space on its way to the stars. But the temptation of one last backward look was irresistible. Swinging its camera around, it took snapshots of the now distant planets as they might appear to an alien craft approaching the solar system...
...Pale Blue Dot (Random House; 429 pages; $35), the ninth book by astronomer and planetary scientist Carl Sagan. Voyager's homeward glance was his idea, and the sight was humbling. "There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits," he writes, "than this distant image of our tiny world." To say nothing of the folly of wars, which from space would appear to be little more than "the squabbles of mites on a plum...