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Never mind evil aliens, deadly phasers and the mysterious "wormhole" -- a sort of magic tunnel through which space travelers can zip to distant galaxies. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is one series that isn't afraid of abstract theoretical concepts. In the show's premiere episode, Commander Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks) tried to explain the nature of linear time, the idea that the past influences the future. "That is the essence of linear existence," he said. "Each day affects the next...
Yale's endowment wasn't invested in New Haven in any meaningful way, but in distant equity markets that would produce the greatest short-term monetary return...
...Much of the evidence comes from the kinds of motions Zwicky noted and also from the mysteriously rapid rotation rates of individual star systems, particularly those known as spiral galaxies. Another clue, uncovered largely by AT&T Bell Laboratories astrophysicist J. Anthony Tyson, is the bending of light from distant galaxies. The light is presumably distorted by the gravitational pull of invisible matter...
...Most will never know what it is to be dwarfed by an old-growth forest, spy brook trout sipping mayflies or hear a wolf howl. For many, such subtle communion has been replaced by the stridency of environmentalism, a full-blown crusade, and by dire appeals on behalf of distant rain forests and a bestiary of endangered species. In these alliances, those remote from nature draw comfort that though embattled, the wild still exists...
...Distant time zones being a popular destination of choice, some of Harvard's swimmers and divers will be heading west...