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Despite their similarities, however, each of the shows has a distinct personality. Today is like a morning newspaper, solid, informative but sometimes pompous and solemn. The set, so old now that it is encrusted with dust, is dominated by an official-looking horseshoe-shaped desk, behind which are chairs for the staff and a giant backdrop of the Manhattan skyline. Brokaw, 40, has something of the manner of a friendly corporate lawyer. The prim and manicured Pauley, 30, could easily be his law school trainee, so efficient does she seem. Fortunately, what they lack in sparkle is made...
Half a century passed before Galileo's question was answered. In a 1659 treatise, Systema Saturnium. Dutch Astronomer Christiaan Huygens correctly deduced the the ears of Saturn were a distinct ring, disconnected from the parent planet and slightly tilted as observed from the earth. From a terrestrial perspective the ears would periodically vanish because the angle of vision changed during Saturn's voyage around the sun. A superb telescope-maker, Huygens also discovered Saturn's largest moon, Titan, and calculated the time it took the ringed planet Huygens make a single journey around the sun (nearly...
...Jamaica fall to the state where it was becoming an international beggar, totally broke, helped the other Caribbean countries to realize that this was not the way. They evaluated their own political movements in terms of what they saw happening in Jamaica. Hence there has been a very distinct shift, along with ours, in their own governments, away from radical ideological adventures toward a traditional strategy of economic development. But if the move back to moderation is not accompanied by an increased standard of living and a more stable society, then we move right back to a replay...
...selections were made by J. Carter Brown, director of the National Gallery, Professor Nicholas Yalouris, inspector-general of the antiquities of Greece, and other experts, all of whom know how to develop a hypothesis as well as an exhibition. The installation affects a quest. It is divided among three distinct, sequential sections that draw one from room to room, back in time from Alexander comic strips and a Daumier cartoon to a final, wine-dark chamber where a wreath of gold leaves and acorns hangs over a gold larnax, or chest, in which Philip II's bones might have...
...drivers and commuting motorists-and, above all, pedestrians who chance to step in the path of a kamikaze ten-speed scorching silently up on the blind side. Bicycles, those sweet chariots of the old Consciousness III, now flourishing under the flag of narcisso-fitness, are becoming a distinct source of urban tension...