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Astronomers have long been convinced that the universe must be filled with planets orbiting faraway suns. In the past couple of years, scientists have even detected such planets indirectly, by measuring the wobbles their gravity imposes on their host stars. But no one expected actually to photograph any of these distant worlds until well into the next century, when the next generation of superpowerful telescopes goes into space. Yet that's precisely what the Hubble telescope seems to have done. NASA announced last week that the space telescope has snapped what scientists believe is the first picture of a planet...
...that spring, students were not only affected by faraway events like Nixon's Cambodian invasion or the Kent State protest but by an occurrence closer to home: the integration of Harvard and Radcliffe...
Born in India and raised in Burma, Shah knew as a young boy that he was supposed to be somewhere else in the world. He would pass beggars in the shadowy streets of Rangoon on his way to the movies, where a glamorous, faraway place filled the screen every day. William Holden was up there, along with Gregory Peck and Kim Novak, golden with the light of the West...
...those last minute additions consume the final minutes of packing and preparation. Flagging down a taxicab while weighed down with too much luggage is a last-minute ritual, too. But there is one final thing to remember: the tickets. Those airline tickets, which were received three months ago from faraway parents, are now nowhere to be found. As one stresses out in the last few minutes before the flight departure, one has to wonder whether there is an easier way to get home. Karen Kennedy, a representative of Delta Airlines, gives a resounding "yes" when she says the answer...
...Ascent Program. Sea Hawk Academy promises "the wake-up call your teenager needs." Many offer to arrange the kind of "escort service" David van Blarigan found at his bedside. The schools and camps are often isolated, either in rural America (Thompson Falls, Mont.) or in faraway locales (Western Samoa). They number as many as 2,000, estimates Alexia Parks, author of a new online report on the subject, An American Gulag, and they come in many varieties: religious, military-style, and some focused on special issues, like drug abuse. A few try to "shock" gay children back to heterosexuality...