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As polling methods have advanced, the press has gradually elevated pollsters to the status of prophets. And journalists sometimes forget that their prophecies come not from the heavens but from a branch of mathematics called probability theory, whose most obvious application is to gambling. The concepts are commonly introduced in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Do We Ask Too Much of Polls? | 2/19/1990 | See Source »

Previous Crimson articles have said that faith in rules amounts, in a case like this, to "petty proceduralism." I guess I just remember one day in Justice, in my first year, when Michael Sandel quoted Kant as saying, "Let justice be done though the heavens may fall." I agree that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COCA Notices Were Invasion of Privacy | 12/5/1989 | See Source »

For all their skill at finding and analyzing such bizarre objects as black holes, neutron stars and quasars, astronomers have so far failed to solve one of the most basic mysteries of the cosmos: What does the universe look like? The heavens appear just as two dimensional through powerful modern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Great Bubbles in the Cosmos | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

In charting the heavens, two astronomers have found giant cosmic voids with surfaces made of galaxies. They have also discovered a "Great Wall" of galaxies so big it runs off the map.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page Vol.134, No. 22 NOVEMBER 27, 1989 | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

I still remember that sunny September day, the whizzing sound of German planes strafing defenseless refugees, exploding bombs, the stench of burning and dead horses at the roadside. I thought the heavens had fallen in on me. Relations between Lithuania and Poland were not very good, and we were held...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remembrance I Thought the Heavens Had Fallen | 8/28/1989 | See Source »

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