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...detectors are well above the densest, murkiest layers of atmosphere and can peer through some of the dryest, clearest air on earth to help determine whether the original Big Bang was unique or was followed by smaller ones. A few hundred yards away, close to the enormous geodesic dome that covers the thickly insulated buildings of the U.S.'s Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, atmospheric scientists measured traces of pollutants released around the globe. The pole is so remote from civilization that there, better than anywhere else, scientists can accurately assess just how far-reaching are the effects of pollution...
...earth. Though 19 centuries have passed since Roman troops obliterated Herod's gilded Temple, the Mount remains the object of intense Jewish reverence. But for the past 13 centuries the same trapezoidal tract has also been Islam's holiest site after Mecca and Medina: its Al Aqsa Mosque and Dome of the Rock honor the spot whence the Prophet Muhammad is said to have ascended to the seventh heaven. Christians too hold in awe this place where Jesus walked. Now a controversy has arisen over whether, and when, a new Jewish Temple should be built...
...Harvard men's tennis team has not been intimidated by the Golden Dome at Notre Dame. Playing in the Notre Dame Invitational in South Bend, Ind., the Crimson is continuing the momentum it garnered by sweeping both the singles and doubles competition last weekend at the Harvard Invitational...
...basilica's dome, which reaches 525 ft. above the ground, makes it the tallest church in all Christendom -- about 100 ft. higher than St. Peter's, its inspiration -- but Our Lady of Peace will accommodate 2,000 fewer worshipers than St. Peter's. The Yamoussoukro basilica is the dazzling centerpiece of a building boom launched by President Felix Houphouet-Boigny to carve a modern capital out of the rain forest, 135 miles from the coast and the urban center of Abidjan, the former capital...
...gift to God "in thanks for all the years of peace that we have enjoyed." Says a young religious instructor: "We give it to the entire Christian world with the little that we have, despite our poverty. This is the way Ivorians think." Under the shadow of the colossal dome, Antoine Bakou, 29, hoes his yam patch and reflects quietly, "It is a good thing for us to have the basilica because we Africans walk in the divine presence...