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...Mark, for instance, grew up during the Apollo years, but got rich from an IPO of his software-mapping firm. Now he's back to his first love. "It's not the thrill of acceleration for me," he says. "It's the experience of looking down to see the Earth, the experience of zero gravity. It would be crazy...
...strongest conclusions yet: one, that global warming is real, and two, that it’s very likely (90 percent) that human activity is the cause. Moreover, even under the most realistically stringent pollution controls worldwide, the IPCC projects that the greenhouse gas emissions will continue to warm the earth for another century. And warmer temperatures will mean all sorts of climate changes, particularly more extreme weather events and a higher sea level...
...real lesson of the deserted Student Organization Center at Hilles (SOCH) (“Students Apply Again for Hilles Space”, news, Feb. 6, and “Earth to Hilles”, editorial, Feb. 8) is that the quick road to failure in a student-life initiative is to leave students out of planning...
...unhelpful. She would be the first to point out that she has yet to make a recording or grace the European opera stages that forged Sutherland's fame. But in the budding boldness of her bel canto one can already sense a magical symmetry forming-of another down-to-earth spirit allied to a heavenly voice...
...foreshadow the crumbling of this truce. Ross submitted a scientifically correct thesis about a creature that lived 65 million years ago. His work was deemed scientifically “impeccable” by his dissertation adviser. But Ross is also a believer in “young Earth creationism,” the theory that that the planet is only as old as Eden. While it may appear inherently intellectually dissonant to work within the strictures of science, which holds that the Earth is millions of years old, during the day, yet privately ascribe to a belief that holds that...