Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Garisto stumbled across the blunder while puzzling over some confusing numbers from Newton's 1687 masterpiece of physics, the Principia. Newton had derived a figure for the earth's mass based on his new theory that a single force -- gravity -- governed falling bodies on earth and the motion of planets around the sun. The calculation depended on the angle between two lines from the earth to the sun, but because the angle was not precisely known at the time, Newton used slightly different figures as he revised the Principia. Although he had settled on 10.5 sec., or about three-thousandths...
Andrew Wyeth might summer there. Bob Newhart could run the colonial inn. Eastwick -- it looks like a travel poster for the New England dream. It surely boasts a trio of dream girls: Alexandra (Cher), who sculpts clay Earth Mothers; Jane (Susan Sarandon), who cues the school band with a hearty "Horns up!"; and Sukie (Michelle Pfeiffer), abustle with her six kids. All are displaced, not quite fulfilled by their evenings together swapping naughty secrets. And when this comely sorority is restless, Eastwick suffers, with plagues of sudden storms and cherry pits. The women are witches, you see. And now they...
...must choose to be custodians of this lovely planet that suckled us and led us peaceably forward with all the rest of nature for millions of years and could go on for its allotted billions more if we tell our time what to do. Otherwise, time and the earth could go out like a candle...
...album cover and listened to the music that for many epitomizes the spirit of the psychedelic '60s. "It still sounds fresh," remarked McCartney, 44. "Was it really 20 years ago that we made that record?" Then the pop legend spoke about his continuing commitment to "peace on earth, love and understanding between everyone around the world." Said he: "We have to keep our faith, keep pushing and hope we have better news to report 20 years from today." But to make that happen, we are all going to need a little help from our friends...
...sweat through 15 miles of bumper-to-bumper traffic between their home and the ocean beachfront of Robert Moses State Park. Du Page County's Morton Arboretum, a popular spot for local outings, is becoming a walled fortress. Managers are erecting a series of 40-ft.-high earth berms to protect the trees and shrubs from the lethal effect of de-icing salt splashed up by heavy traffic on the neighboring tollway. Mark Baldassare, a sociologist at the University of California at Irvine, predicts that by the 21st century Orange County traffic will become so hopelessly jammed that "the people...