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...flight that had been scheduled by the shuttle Columbia for June 24 appeared to be the earliest possible...
Aquino is learning how to forge positions that no longer sound startlingly naive, if idealistically attractive, to her listeners. One of her earliest promises was that if elected, she would not move into Malacanang Palace; instead she would open the residence for public wedding ceremonies. Now she sounds much less like a Filipina flower child. In her Rotary speech last week, Aquino laid out a program for lifting Marcos' "institutionalized dictatorship" that included an appeal to the Marcos-controlled National Assembly to repeal the presidential powers of preventive detention and return to the rule of habeas corpus. If the Assembly...
Theorists have previously sugested that the bubble structure is related to transitions in the nature of matter during the earliest history of the universe, which scientists believe is between 10 and 20 billion years...
...build associations and feelings, or he can tell a simple story, constantly repeating verses or choruses with his improvised country diction to make his point. He can write about the endless variations of love or about the emptiness felt inside watching a derelict die on the street. His earliest songs, many of them never recorded, are wide-eyed youthful reflections on the misfortune and injustice he saw as he journeyed through America. He writes about having no money, he writes about a Black man being lynched in the South...
There are good reasons for this intensive scrutiny. To astronomers, a comet is a sort of flying museum stocked with precious artifacts from the very earliest moments of the solar system. They hope that by peering into Halley's cold heart and sniffing out the dust and gases that stream from its surface, they can discern the conditions that existed at the birth of the sun and the nine planets some 4.5 billion years ago. That in turn could reveal how common an occurrence the formation of planets around other stars may be, hence how likely it is that extraterrestrial...