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...Thanks for the reminder that earth is but a small grain of sand on the beach when compared with the size of the known universe. I don't think people give much thought to how insignificant we are in that respect. I was intrigued by the scientific community's fascinating discoveries of what happened after the Big Bang. I'm staying tuned. Vincent M. Carini Lyndhurst, New Jersey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 9/25/2006 | See Source »

...because light comes from stars, which could not have been created after light was. Now your article has shown how it could be true. Science has once again caught up with the Bible. Sara Borden Maple Valley, Washington, U.S. Thanks for the reminder that Earth is but a small grain of sand on the beach when compared with the size of the known universe. I don't think people give much thought to how insignificant we are in that respect. I was intrigued by the scientific community's fascinating discoveries of what happened after the Big Bang. I'm staying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dawn Of The Universe | 9/19/2006 | See Source »

...Indeed, what separates a star bull from the herd is his ability to get bucky on demand. Each year the bulls are shuttled to dozens of events from California to Connecticut, and one never knows how they will emerge from the ride. "Everywhere we go, the hay and the grain might taste a little different," says Cody Lambert, the PBR's livestock director. "The good ones learn to relax through all of this and not let it stress them out." Dehydration is a risk, and can leave a bull lethargic for an event. And no one wants a sleepy bull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bring On the Bulls | 9/18/2006 | See Source »

Thanks for the reminder that earth is but a small grain of sand on the beach when compared with the size of the known universe. I don't think people give much thought to how insignificant we are in that respect. I was intrigued by the scientific community's fascinating discoveries of what happened after the Big Bang. I'm staying tuned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 25, 2006 | 9/17/2006 | See Source »

...birds, people change shapes, they go to heaven and back." Ngugi's early novels were built around defining moments in Kenya's history, such as the Mau Mau uprising against the British in the 1950s, during which one of his brothers was killed. But after his third novel, A Grain of Wheat, "I became increasingly disturbed that I was drawing from a people's history, their lives, blood, sweat and culture created in and by a national language, but what I was writing was encased in English," he says. "I was writing about a community, but not for a community...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa's Wizard Of Words | 9/3/2006 | See Source »

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