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...dangerous, but it can just as easily be used wisely. "I do have faith," says Case Western's Murray. "Not that the judgment of people is always right, but that eventually we will preserve a good measure of fairness and justice. If we can absorb Copernicus and Galileo, if we can absorb Darwin and Freud, we can certainly absorb mapping the human genome...
...models of the universe, they can visualize just how the light of the sun on the moon produces different moon phases. They make their own telescopes from cardboard, paper-towel cylinders and plastic lenses. (The result is a telescope more powerful than the one first used by Galileo.) They record in journals the movement of the moon and sun and chart the arrivals and departures of the constellations...
...despaired as the eagerly awaited shuttle launch of the Hubble space telescope, which could revolutionize astronomy by extending our view to the edges of the universe, fell years behind schedule. Crucial deadlines were missed for shuttle launches of the planetary probes Magellan, designed to map the surface of Venus, Galileo, to survey Jupiter and its moons, and Ulysses, to conduct solar studies from a polar orbit around...
...reconnaissance satellite, which will be used in part to monitor Soviet compliance with nuclear-arms-reduction treaties, will be aboard the next shuttle. Scientists too have been granted accommodations -- aboard the Atlantis in April 1989, the next opportunity to launch the Magellan mission, and the following October for the Galileo probe. The Hubble telescope may finally get off the ground in February 1990, and Ulysses in October of that year...
Hawking was born on Jan. 8, 1942 -- 300 years to the day, he often notes, after the death of Galileo -- to parents who were Oxford graduates. As a small boy, he was slow to learn to read but liked to take things apart -- a way of "finding out how the world around me worked." But he confesses that he was never very good at putting things back together. When he was twelve, he recalls wryly, "one of my friends bet another friend a bag of sweets that I would never come to anything. I don't know if this...