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More surprises are almost certain to follow if astronomers find more and more planets circling other stars. But while finding new planets of any sort is terrifically exciting, says Alan Boss, an astronomer at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, "the Holy Grail is to find an extrasolar planet that is capable of supporting life...
...politics that the son could outshine the father; Malcolm, who twice tried and failed to win the Governor's race in New Jersey, called the presidency the "Holy Grail" of American politics. "When I first met Steve," recalls his friend Peggy Noonan, former Reagan speechwriter and author, "I said, 'I get it--the oldest-son reaction to Dad. Dad is colorful; Steve is sedate. Dad is a showman; Steve is reticent. In time I changed my view. The fact is, Steve has always held views that were daring. He's every bit as colorful, but it's all inside...
...SYNTHETIC OIL CALLED OLESTRA may be the Holy Grail of fat substitutes [HEALTH, Jan. 8], but to suggest that its introduction will have an impact on the health of Americans is naive. It is not the fat in the food we eat that is necessarily the cause of our maladies; it is our life-style and our attitude toward food and eating. The answer is not to take the fat out of the fatty foods we eat but to take the fat out of our diets by selecting naturally low-fat foods and then to get off the sofa...
...these finds are useful and interesting. But what scholars truly yearn for - what might even be called the Holy Grail of biblical archaeology - is a royal archive from before the time of King David or King Solomon. No such archive has ever been located inside Israel, although surrounding countries have yielded many from the same era. Sighs Amnon Ben-Tor, a Hebrew University archaeologist: "It's like striking oil. Everywhere but here...
...recent cuts will affect the U.S. economy, it is only necessary to examine some of the cuts themselves. For instance, the United States Geological Survey has been forced to truncate a program dedicated to mapping the country's geological resources. Hydrogen fusion, the holy grail of energy-production technology, has been placed farther out of reach by cuts that will prevent the Princeton Plasma Physics laboratory from building a new experimental reactor. And funding for similar research ongoing at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories is currently uncertain...