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...However faint the sunrise was, I appreciated it. I have not seen too many sunrises in my life--certainly not many sober, or after just waking. And I had never watched one while taking an exam at five in the morning...
...South Pole, meanwhile, astrophysicists were taking advantage of a heat wave -- the temperature had soared to -23 degrees C (-10 degrees F) -- to set up detectors that would peer at the faint microwave radiation left over from the Big Bang explosion, which theoretically started the universe. In the high altitudes atop the pole's ice cap, the detectors are well above the densest, murkiest layers of atmosphere and can peer through some of the dryest, clearest air on earth to help determine whether the original Big Bang was unique or was followed by smaller ones. A few hundred yards away...
...news-desk editor Waits May telexed her a recipe for cabbage dressing. And sometimes the news desk reaches out and nobody's there. May recalls reading an edited story to an exhausted ^ correspondent in Algiers late one night to check its accuracy. After a while he heard only a faint thump-thump on the line. He realized that the correspondent had fallen asleep, and the receiver was resting on her chest...
Another major mystery is the fact that the faint glow of microwaves left over from the Big Bang is almost completely uniform. The presence of large bubbles in the universe suggests that this microwave radiation should be much more uneven. More clues may come from the new Cosmic Background Explorer satellite, which is designed to measure radiation intensities as it orbits the earth in the coming year...
...praise was terminally faint. During a question period in Parliament last week, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher expressed confidence in Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson, who was feuding with her chief economic adviser, Sir Alan Walters. But her endorsement was embarrassingly tepid. Lawson, 57, promptly resigned. His successor: Foreign Minister John Major, 46, who headed the Foreign Office for less than four months but served as Chief Secretary to the Treasury for two years. Rumor has it that he is Thatcher's new favorite to be her successor. Major's replacement: Home Secretary Douglas Hurd, 59, who presumably brings...