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[People] are sure they don't want you to put [nuclear waste] near them," she says. "I worked with wonderful people, thank heavens, because every part of the public, from the anti-nuclear people to the companies...didn't like what we were doing."
VENICE, Italy: A celestial map unveiled by the European Space Agency appears to be so accurate that it is moving astronomers to reevaluate the size and age of the universe. The map, made from data received from the agency's Hipparcos satellite, has led scientists to speculate that the cosmos...
In her first novel, Dreaming in Cuban, five years ago, Cristina Garcia laid authoritative claim to the hearts and elemental souls of Cuban women, their dreams, their zany ways, the "anxious moonlight" inside them; in the process, she won a National Book Award nomination and a devoted following. Now, in...
The Wisdom of the Body perks up considerably in its accounts of medical case histories. Some of them have the adrenaline-charged force of a Grisham page turner. In his opening chapter, Nuland writes of Margaret Hansen, 42, who was rushed to the emergency room of St. Raphael's hospital...
But once we enter the "real world" the burden of social justice descends and without prior experience we are liable to either crumble under its weight or refuse it outright. Beware students: beware Icarus, the boy who thought he could soar to the high heavens on flimsy wings.