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...that theory received a jolt from another astronomical discovery announced this week. Scientists from Caltech, Princeton and the Institute for Advanced Study have detected the most distant quasar (an exceptionally bright starlike object) ever spotted. It is billions of light-years away, and the researchers estimate that it existed when the universe was only 7% of its present age. It is hard to explain how a quasar could be formed that early, even under the influence of cold dark matter...
...only through years of data that these conclusions could have been ultimately made," Huchra said. The astronomer said that when their project ends in 1992-93, he and Geller will have mapped more than 15,000 distant galaxies...
...attempts of Walsh and Today's Independents to make the ballot initiative the central campaign issue may have ended up hurting the referendum's quiet supporters. Sullivan, for years the city's top vote-getter, ran a distant third in this year's campaign...
...kept up his character study throughout the two-day summit in San Jose. The night that El Salvador's Alfredo Cristiani criticized Ortega publicly, Bush looked down the table to his right at the tilted chin, the solemn profile of the Nicaraguan President. "He just stared off into the distant horizon," Bush recalled. "There was in the room a sense of total outrage at what Ortega had done...
Sullivan ran a distant second to Wolf in yesterday's count with 2553 votes--certainly enough to gain him a seat, but quite a ways from the mid-1960s, when a Sullivan vote of more than 4000 was the norm...