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Last week they did just that. Standing in front of colleagues and reporters at the American Astronomical Society's semiannual meeting in San Diego, the world's premier planet-hunting team--astronomer Geoffrey Marcy of the University of California, Berkeley, and his colleagues--presented not one but two remarkable finds. The first is a pair of planets, each about the mass of Jupiter, that whirl around their home star 15 light-years from Earth in perfect lockstep. One takes 30 days to complete an orbit, the other exactly twice as long. Nobody has ever seen such a configuration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Planetary Puzzlers | 1/22/2001 | See Source »

...when the first segment will air, to the last day of the month, when the final chapter, an accounting of the music's past quarter-century, a hopeful peek into the future and a fond envoi, will close everything out in fine style. The mighty history Burns and writer Geoffrey C. Ward have wrested from all this material is many things, including imperfect. But on balance and at bottom, the series not only does jazz proud, it also rises to meet it. Jazz is great television about great music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Fascinating Rhythms | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

...Geoffrey F. Reed '03 is a social studies concentrator in Eliot House. He is serving as campaign chairman for vice presidential candidate John F. Bash...

Author: By Geoffrey F. Reed, | Title: An Endowment for All | 12/12/2000 | See Source »

...Geoffrey S. Downs, a student inside the building, said building staffers were surprised by the demonstrators--and that there was "some antagonism...

Author: By Warren Adler, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Tufts Students Seize Campus Building | 11/29/2000 | See Source »

...Charenton Insane Asylum, the Marquis de Sade (Geoffrey Rush) has a nice life--good food, good wine, the ability to smuggle his dirty books out to his publisher via a sympathetic chambermaid (Kate Winslet). But he offends Napoleon, who orders an alienist (Michael Caine) to cure him or kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Soft-Gore Porn | 11/27/2000 | See Source »

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