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...that moment, in the distant patch -- actually a small galaxy now known as the Large Magellanic Cloud -- a supergiant star glowed fiercely, showing no outward signs of its impending doom. Suddenly, in a cataclysmic blast, it exploded, brightening until it outshone a hundred million stars the size of the sun. In every direction the intense light, traveling at 186,282 miles per second, radiated out into the universe, some of it heading toward a minor planet orbiting an average star in the neighboring and much larger Milky Way galaxy...
These days, though, tales of future shocks seem like distant fantasies. OPEC remains a cartel held together by the loosest of links. Three months ago the group agreed to cut production by 7%, to 15.8 million bbl. a day, and prices later jumped by about $4, to more than $19 per bbl. But OPEC's continued weakness soon surfaced. Last month certain members were reported to be cheating on the cartel's production accord, and prices fell below $15 per bbl. Even as Saudi Arabia worked last week to keep the production agreement intact, causing prices to rise about...
...going to promise you better times," roared the fiery American preacher as he prowled the stage with Bible held aloft, "but it doesn't matter, because you're going to a better place anyway!" To many of his eager listeners in a San Salvador stadium, the distant hope of heaven may have been at least momentarily alluring, beset as their nation has been by a seven-year guerrilla war and a moribund economy. When the preacher later assured them that "terrible times are coming," the applause of approving believers reached a thunderous peak...
...traffic controllers union when president of the United States. He tells Israeli and Jewish leaders he filmed death camps at the end of World War II "so I'd never forget," yet he spent the war at home. No matter that many of his stories are false and others distant memories of movies seen long ago: He's just making a point. And Americans, who twice have elected him President, are complicit in the make believe...
...Houston lab had pushed that temperature 5 degrees higher -- to 98 K. Under such conditions -- far less extreme than those required only a few years ago -- superconducting technology might eventually become inexpensive and even commonplace. Possible applications: superconducting cables that could transmit electricity from a power plant to a distant city with essentially no energy loss; practical versions of trains that "fly" ) just above their tracks at hundreds of miles an hour, cushioned on magnetic fields; more widespread use of magnetic resonance imaging machines, which take sharp pictures of the soft tissues of the body. Says Northwestern University Physicist Arthur...