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...prices climb faster than ivy, the leaders, not surprisingly, are the prestigious private schools. Tiny (550 students) Bennington College in Vermont and science giant (4,300 undergraduates) M.I.T. are the costliest. Their tabs, says the College Board: just over $17,000. And the schools believe they are worth it. "We offer extraordinary facilities, extraordinary faculty, extraordinary peers and the best talent available," says M.I.T. Admissions Director Michael Behnke. There is another factor too. "You are paying for prestige," says William Park, professor of English at Sarah Lawrence ($16,285) and a graduate of Princeton...
...rival Shi'ite Muslim and Druze militias crouched in doorways and fired bursts from automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades into the darkness. Four floors above the fierce firefight, Terry Waite, the special envoy of the Archbishop of Canterbury, was trapped with staff members of the Associated Press. A giant of a man, who stands 6 ft. 7 in. and weighs 258 lbs., the bearded Waite, 46, was in Beirut to seek the release of four of the American hostages held by Muslim extremists. As bullets chipped the walls of the A.P. bureau, Waite seized the opportunity to take...
Angry and vengeful, Pennzoil's Liedtke sued Texaco, and last week the oil giant paid a painful price for its successful maneuver. A Houston jury decided that Texaco had sabotaged Pennzoil's contract with Getty, and fined Texaco an awesome $10.5 billion. It was the largest sum ever awarded in a corporate court fight, dwarfing the $1.8 billion won by MCI in a 1980 suit against...
Prior to entering the white-dwarf stage, however, an aging star cools and balloons into a red giant. And that, the Ruhr researchers speculate, is probably what Sirius B was when the Babylonians--and then the Greeks, Romans and Franks--gazed skyward. To the unaided eyes of the ancients, the two closely spaced stars looked like a single pinpoint, with a decided reddish tint imparted by the dominating giant. The combined light of the binary pair would certainly have been brighter than it is today, and indeed Babylonian cuneiforms tell of Sirius' being visible in the daytime...
...change was gradual, the researchers admit, it took a remarkably short time for Sirius B to become a white dwarf. In fact, most astronomers think a red giant takes at least 100,000 years to reach that stage. If the change was violent and abrupt, they say, "no traces of catastrophic effects connected with such an event have been found." Those traces, according to widely accepted astrophysical theory, would include an expanding cloud of glowing gas still visible from the earth. Finally, the brilliance of Sirius B's explosion would certainly have lasted for weeks or months and provided...