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...ongoing debate about the value of manned spaced flights. NASA officials have long insisted that human crews are vital because even the most sophisticated robots lack the ability to respond to unexpected situations. If the U.S. is serious about exploring the solar system, they say, unmanned probes to distant celestial bodies must be followed by missions involving humans...
Even Barbara Bush, whose relations with Nancy Reagan have been distant at best, attacked the book as "trash and fiction." She specifically disputed one episode: Barbara Bush did not, as the book relates, give Nancy Reagan a white vine wreath one Christmas -- a wreath Nancy supposedly had gift-wrapped and sent to a friend in California. Every window at the White House, the current First Lady pointed out, already has a wreath at Christmastime. "If you're going to make up a story," she said, "you can make up a better one than that." Nancy called Barbara Bush last week...
...never imagined could exist. The latest surprise came last week, and it forced scientists to drop whatever they were doing and scribble hurried calculations, even on napkins and scraps of envelopes. A report in the Astrophysical Journal claimed that something gigantic is hiding in the core of a distant galaxy called NGC 6240. Perhaps it is a black hole, a concentration of matter so dense that not even light can escape its powerful gravity. If so, it is more massive by far than any black hole ever detected. Or it may be something so bizarre that it does...
Gamma rays are the most powerful type of radiation, thought to have been created during the explosion that launched the universe and its subsequent expansion. As distant heavenly bodies continue to collapse and explode, the only signals earth may receive of this activity are in the form of gamma rays. For example, gamma-ray bursters have been measured releasing more energy in a matter of seconds than the sun does in thousands of years. Since they carry no electric charge, gamma rays can plow through space unchanged, giving scientists a clear record of cosmic events. The atmosphere shields the earth...
...first time, no first-year students had to live in the distant Radcliffe Quad. The Harvard Union began serving meals on the weekends. And in that same year, 1977, Henry C. Moses took over as dean of first-year students...