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...award arose from the donation of a late Kentucky entrepreneur named Edgar Wilson, who sought to encourage public appreciation of astronomy...
Candidates for the Edgar Wilson Award must receive the sanction of the CBAT before qualifying for the award. The monetary award is then divided equally among all candidates who discover new comets that year...
Amateur astronomers around the world can now receive monetary compensation for their comet discoveries, thanks to the annual Edgar Wilson Award, announced this June by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics...
...John Edgar Wideman subtitles his eighth novel, Two Cities (Houghton Mifflin; 242 pages; $24), "A Love Story," but his version of that familiar genre seems at times the antithesis of standard romance. Robert Jones, 50, meets Kassima, 35, at a dance club, and she eventually invites him back to her house. Good sex leads to good conversation and then to love, an emotion that fills Kassima with terror and dread. Within a recent span of 10 months, both of her teenage sons were killed by gang violence in her Pittsburgh neighborhood and their father died of aids he contracted...
DIED. LEROY EDGAR BURNEY, 91, Surgeon General from 1956 to 1961 and the first in that office to implicate smoking as a cause of lung cancer; in Arlington Heights, Ill. Burney's pronouncements helped set the stage for the Surgeon General's landmark antismoking report...