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...expectations." In one experiment involving a pallet instrument called a spectrophotometer, the scientists succeeded in making the first measurements of deuterium, a heavy form of hydrogen, in the upper atmosphere. By such observations, scientists can study weather patterns on earth. They can also explore the history of distant worlds, since the presence of large quantities of deuterium is a sign that a planet may once have held water, which is essential for life. Scanning the skies, Spacelab's telescopes sighted at least two puzzling sources of X rays. These could not be observed under the earth's obscuring...
...billed by Promoter Don King as "a family affair," but the 500 reporters and photographers jammed together last week at New York City's Tavern on the Green were treated more like very distant relatives. Superstar Michael Jackson, 25, was announcing plans for a reunion album and a 40-city tour, starting in May, with his singing siblings. Sporting flashy threads and flashing shades, Michael and his five brothers-Jackie, 22, Jermaine, 28, Marlon, 26, Randy, 21, and Tito, 30-obligingly posed for the press but left the talking to King, who predicted that the act would...
Nineteenth century travel photographers used chemicals and light to catch distant realities upon a collodion wet plate and bear them home in velvet-lined boxes to London or New York. It was a cumbersome wizardry that they practiced, lumbering across Mexico or Africa in darkroom wagons. In desert heat they crawled under layers of blankets, into lightless black bags, to change their photographic plates. When a photographer named Captain Payer was taking pictures in Egypt for the Viceroy in 1863, the fellahin thought that his camera was a Pandora's box, and-that his black bellows contained cholera; they...
...predominantly white school for 11 years, it never entered my mind that relations between whites and Blacks at Harvard could be any different from those relations I had experienced with whites while I grew up. Sure, Boston had had its fair share of "racial tensions", in the not-too-distant past, but I figured that Harvard was an intellectual island in a sea of emotional racial turmoil. I didn't want to go into South Boston anyway...
Osborne is amused to hear the players say he has mellowed over the past two or three seasons. This recurring report always delights him. By the time they are seniors, the players discover to their astonishment that Osborne is not the distant man who chilled them as freshmen. A few weeks ago, before the annual game between the freshmen and the redshirts (a task force, sophomores mostly, being held out a year), the varsity formed a funnel onto the field to usher in the next generation; the pure numbers of Nebraska football players collected all in one place brought...