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...1960s cinema-verit? movement, and traversed the globe for United Nations and National Geographic documentaries. DIED. FRED WHIPPLE, 97, rocket scientist whose "dirty snowball" theory made it easier to track comets; in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Before Whipple explained the phenomenon in 1950, astronomers thought comets were loose collections of dust and vapor held together by gravity. Whipple argued that the core of a comet consists of ice, ammonia, methane and carbon dioxide, and that its gossamer tail consists of particles that break off from the mass as it approaches the Sun. Over seven decades of work at Harvard University...
...DIED. FRED L. WHIPPLE, 97, pioneering astronomer who was the first to accurately describe comets as masses of rock and ice; in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Whipple's 1950 "dirty snowball" theory was hotly disputed by scientists who believed that comets consisted of dust or gases, but photographs of Halley's comet taken in 1986 proved him right. He also designed the "Whipple shield," a device still used today to protect spacecraft from meteors...
...IMAM ALI SHRINE, WE HAD to walk through the battlefield. Snipers' bullets buzzed past our heads and lodged in the wall, sending a fine dust of pulverized plaster over us as I, my interpreter Hussam and three Mahdi fighters on the street tumbled into an open storefront to escape the barrage. The militiamen stood between us and the door to shield us from the unrelenting fire. They were young, polite and dedicated to their cause. As they saw it, they were protecting their holiest site from infidel Americans. But the Mahdi fighters were perfectly willing to safeguard...
...great mood for change. Or that there is a crisis at hand. Or even that there's some historical crossroads nearby. In a nutshell, here is a contest between a government that people know in their bones and an alternative team whose new leader dispenses good vibes and pixie dust. There is a feeling that two well-matched candidates are about to extend themselves; there will be a struggle across the generations, to be sure. And, if Latham and Howard stay true to their harsher selves, it will be a fight without sentimentality or sanctimony...
...delivered his lines in a voice worn thin from decades of screaming at referees, but he was not angry. Instead he sounded amazed and resigned--like a man who has seen Vesuvius blow its top and knows that in a few moments an empire will be covered in dust. Brown's mood didn't improve after Saturday's 4-point loss to Lithuania, although, thanks to a Greek victory over Angola, his team backed into the medal round. But 12 years after the original Dream Team pulled off the improbable trick of charming its opponents while destroying them...