Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your story on air travel says nothing about the heavy subsidies the air traveler enjoys. The subsidy is in the form of virtually free airports, traffic controllers, weather services, FAA inspectors and, in the case of smaller airlines, direct cash subsidies. In 1976, for example, North Central Airlines received a direct payment of $13 million...
...Some 50 billion years from now, the galaxies will crush together to form the ultimate singularity?a single gigantic black hole?and the universe will cease to exist. Wheeler, for one, sees no escape from what he calls "this final crunch." Says...
...where astrophysics intersects metaphysics and science finally converges with religion. Indeed, black holes seem to have universal implications, for the gravitational collapse of stars suggests that the universe, too, can begin falling back in on itself. If that happens, its billions of galaxies will eventually crush together and could form a super black hole. And what then? Nothing? Or would a new process of creation somehow begin...
...role of a newspaper is not an easy one; it is even more difficult in such a complex community as a college campus. The usual concerns about objectivity and accuracy are compounded by the very nearness of the subject: deans and professors and administrators form part of a larger community from which the reporter cannot escape, even for a moment's journalistic sou-searching. The student reporter, try as he might to keep a cool head, often cannot: for by definition, "big news," the stories that affect the most students, will touch him or her directly. Objectivity looms...
...still manage to develop a bias of their own on occasion. Yet, the argument goes, these are opinions based on a survey, "the full picture" taken from a room in University Hall, and so much clearer than the view here on Plympton St. Students, the deans will say, cannot form proper opinions because they do not have all the facts; yet they will not release the facts to newspaers because they fear the opinions that might develop. The dispassionate observer might conclude that neither the newspaper nor the dean has the full picutre--or all the facts--and that only...