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...fairness, it must be acknowledged that cosmologists have had very little information to go on, at least until very recently. The distant galaxies that bear witness to the universe's origin, evolution and structure are excruciatingly faint, and it takes every bit of skill observers have to tease out their secrets. It hasn't been until the past decade, in fact, that astronomers have had powerful telescopes like the Hubble out in space and the Keck atop Hawaii's Mauna Kea, ultrafast supercomputers and super-sensitive electronic light detectors to give them the data they hunger for. In a very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNRAVELING UNIVERSE | 3/6/1995 | See Source »

Room 711. A faint scraping sound can be heard in Mary Kate Brown's sixth- grade social studies classroom. The students are on a dig. Each group of three or four has been assigned a plot within an ancient Assyrian site. Their mission: to uncover what is at the site, to analyze carefully each artifact they find, then to formulate and defend a thesis about the nature of the place and the people who once lived there. Not even well-heeled Dalton can afford to take an entire class on an excavation in the Middle East, so these students...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEARNING REVOLUTION | 3/1/1995 | See Source »

...ultimate example of the nuclear energy of Taylor's playing is the 1969 album The Great Concert of Cecil Taylor (airing on WHRB at around 2:00 a.m.), where one composition lasts for over two hours, taking up six sides of an LP box set. Not recommended for the faint of heart...

Author: By Eric D. Plaks, | Title: Passionate Taylor Grooves | 1/20/1995 | See Source »

Nope, sorry. This year's Crimson journey, ostensibly toward Lake Placid, Worcester and Providence, should be officially condemned by the Surgeon General as "hazardous to your health." As in, the ulcer-prone and the faint of heart should get off the bus sooner, rather than later...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, | Title: Roller Coasting | 1/9/1995 | See Source »

This desire to celebrate life through food and drink unites the three women in Reardon's book, through their particular tastes vary. Meanwhile their individual stories cast faint reflections of life outside the kitchen, from Fisher's Hollywood of the 1940's to Child's "02138 zip code set" in '60s Cambridge, to Waters' present-day Berkeley...

Author: By Karen M. Olsson, | Title: Gastronomic Trio Simply Delicious | 12/1/1994 | See Source »

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