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Economics was the class's most popular field of concentration, with Government trading a distant second...
...concerts at the Whitney Museum of American Art attracted public and critical attention to the burgeoning phenomenon of minimalism. The beginnings of success, however, proved too much for the friendship, and the Philip Glass Ensemble split off and went its own way. Today the former friends are distant, even hostile...
...black hole? For one thing, along with recent findings that indicate black holes are in the centers of two other galaxies, it lends credence to the idea that the phenomenon is common. Also, says Reid, Sgr A* could serve "as a model for quasars," the distant, bright dynamos that most astronomers think are galaxies in their earliest stages of formation...
Today's Fresh troops are again in Chad a baked-dry place they might never have had to visit if not for some officer's dream of that now empty would "glory" in a distant land. The Conquest of the Sahura, besides just recounting adventures that really happened and the exotic world where they took place, offers insights into the spirit that inspired colonialism and hint of how these long-ago events influenced the intervening years...
Most experts agree with Harvard Astronomer Fred Whipple, who characterized comets as "dirty snowballs" consisting largely of ice and mineral-rich dust. Comets are thought to originate in the Oort cloud, a distant shell of icy debris believed to surround the solar system and extend out some 10 trillion miles from the sun. Passing stars sometimes dislodge snowballs from the cloud, which can sprout the classic luminous tails of gas and dust as they plunge toward the sun. Most comets whip around the sun and head back out of the solar system. Some, like Halley's, periodically return. But others...