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...recent findings that indicate black holes are in the centers of two other galaxies, it lends credence to the idea that the phenomenon is common. Also, says Reid, Sgr A* could serve "as a model for quasars," the distant, bright dynamos that most astronomers think are galaxies in their earliest stages of formation...
These reactions stem from the discovery and authentication of a puzzling 1830 letter that is a much discussed, contentious issue in Mormon circles. The 637-word document contains one of the earliest accounts of Joseph Smith's finding of the Book of Mormon, the scripture that has equal authority with the Bible for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (world membership: 5.4 million...
...perenially come under fire from some students because it does not grant appeals to students it tries. The body has also been attacked because of the intense peer pressure suffered by student delegates who sat on the committee in its earliest years...
...Ilana's earliest memories are of Party meetings in their house and the countless times the family has to move because landlords will tolerate neither their politics nor their gatherings. No matter where they live, though, the Chandals hang a small wooden harp on the entrance door that emits a sound with every visitor. It seems that all that passes through the door the politics the passions, play on the impressionable Ilana, too. Potok has written a Bildangstoman, a portrait of the artist as a young girl whose watchful eyes and curious mind set upon the whirlwind times and enigmatic...
There are two kinds of people: those who divide things into two categories and those who do not. Vladimir Nabokov is the first kind. In one of his earliest U.S. lectures, the Russian emigre told his classes at Stanford University that there were, essentially, "verb plays and adjective plays, plain plays of action and florid plays of characterization...