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Except to fuel arguments among astronomers, quasars (for quasi-stellar objects) have proved of no practical value since their discovery in 1960. Now the faint, far-off points of light that are possibly the most distant objects in the universe-up to 12 billion light-years away -promise to take on more earthly importance. Scientists at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are hoping to use the bursts of high-frequency radio energy that come from quasars to help them predict earthquakes...
...majority of Chinese on the mainland are young people, highly motivated and extremely well disciplined," Ford said. "As fellow human beings, we celebrate the rising capacities of the Chinese nation, a people with a firm belief in their own destiny. As Americans motivated by free competition, we see a distant challenge. And I believe all Americans welcome that challenge." The next day, the Fords went to Camp David for their first weekend at the presidential retreat in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains...
WALL STREET REFUGEE. "You knew that there was a Depression in the distant past, and you had it in your mind that this could happen again. But you never thought it would. Expense accounts were liberal, lunches were given, drinks flowed." That was the way it was for William Hannafin, 44, of Manhattan, before hard times hit the securities business...
Further turns in the pathways, further convolutions of the spiral. The people around you seem diminished in stature, their skin pale, their gaze distant. You stop a moment to watch as these college students eddy around you like so many ants in a hill. You are standing in front of the cabinet for Soc Sci 15 and casually pick up a text on behavioral psychology. Graphs of response rates and reinforcements and contingencies stare out at you, but your puzzlement is allayed by the almost tangible presence of laboratory walls enveloping you. A symphonic blend of pigeon cooing fills your...
There can hardly have been two distant cities whose fate was, for good and ill, more intimately linked than Venice and Constantinople. Soon after the Emperor Constantino the Great established his new Christian Rome by the Bosporus in 334 A.D., Constantinople, the fabled golden city of Byzantium, became the matrix of European civilization. During Constantinople's rise, Rome was a tract of ruins and Venice only a cluster of wattle huts on a lagoon mudbank...