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...mirror 2.4 meters (7.9 ft.) in diameter that will focus light on an array of cameras and instruments. After recording and analyzing the radiation, the instruments will translate it into electronic impulses and beam it down to earth at a prodigious rate -- fast enough to fill a 30-volume encyclopedia in 42 minutes. Moreover, the Hubble will literally view the stars in a new light: the space observatory can see ultraviolet radiation that fails to reach ground telescopes because it is largely blocked by the earth's ozone shield...
...ENCYCLOPEDIA OF JUDAISM edited by Geoffrey Wigoder (Macmillan; $75). The publisher of 1987's indispensable 16-volume Encyclopedia of Religion is back with this succinct one-volume compendium of Jewish topics, from Abortion to Zion. Virtues: clarity for nonspecialists and balance between modern concepts and respect for tradition...
...this seems a lot of hoopla, given the fact that the 71-year-old 60 Minutes curmudgeon usually zeros in on fail-safe targets like health clubs, cereal and encyclopedia salesmen. But starting last December, Rooney blundered beyond his usual puckish humor into a series of ill-advised and sometimes ignorant statements. On a prime-time special called A Year with Andy Rooney: 1989 he listed "homosexual unions," along with smoking and alcohol abuse, among the "self-induced" causes of death incurred by Americans. There were immediate protests at the implication that gays willingly contract AIDS...
Perry Mason. Sherlock Holmes. Encyclopedia Brown. After this past weekend, I felt that my name should be mentioned along with these great figures in investigative history...
...building carries a full range of titles and offers tomato-basil pie in a second-floor cafe. Owner Richard Howorth maintains a local flavor with a section devoted to Oxford's best-known citizen, William Faulkner. A small sign above the stack of copies of the 8 1/2-lb. Encyclopedia of Southern Culture reads, $5.98 PER LB. SAME AS CATFISH FILLETS...