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...Book of Fixed Stars, 10th century scholar Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi provided exact coordinates for 1,018 stars and 48 constellations. A 14th century copy of his book imaginatively renders a constellation as two sword-wielding warriors holding the heads of recently dispatched enemies. An 11th century celestial globe from Muslim Spain also pinpoints the precise locations of the then known stars, with delightful, fine-lined engravings of humans and animals marking the signs of the zodiac. During their occupation of Spain, Arabs invented the universal astrolabe, a mechanism that could be used in all latitudes to determine...
Meanwhile, some gay rights activists have speculated that Alito might be sympathetic to their cause, pointing to a report issued by a task force that Alito chaired as an undergraduate at Princeton in 1971. The report, revealed last week by the Boston Globe, recommended the decriminalization of sodomy...
These are some of the finest, most glamorous actors on the globe. But their combined name value means little at the U.S. box office. "I've gotta believe, in the job that I do, that when you give the audience something that they haven't seen before, they are going to like it," Amy Pascal, Sony Pictures' movie chief, says of her studio's $80 million investment. "I'm hoping the film appeals to people who have ever been in love...
...first time since 2000, Microsoft plans to release in 2006 an overhauled version of the PowerPoint software that, according to the company, is used for an estimated 30 million presentations around the globe every day. The most obvious change is a brand-new interface, with a "ribbon" of common commands replacing the current, confusing menu. The best new feature is a tool that converts information from any slide into a graphic that you can refine with an easy-to-use menu of ready-made options. And the software simplifies some menu choices only experts used to know about, including...
PREDICTOR Psychic ''Mystic Meg'' in the supermarket tabloid Globe PREDICTION Fear of disease will prompt Madonna to remarry Sean Penn and become ''the new Julie Andrews of the film world.'' WHAT HAPPENED Sean Penn and Robin Wright had their second child. Madonna starred in Body of Evidence, an S&M bomb...