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First identified in the 1960s, the enigmatic, starlike objects called quasars are as baffling today as they were more than a decade ago when Astronomer Jesse Greenstein scribbled his poetic plaint on a Caltech blackboard. What sets quasars apart from most other celestial objects is that the light they emit...
The ancient Greeks believed that lightning bolts were hurled from the heavens by a wrathful Zeus. Modern science has shown that the bolts are actually great electrical discharges between clouds and earth. A new theory by a Johns Hop kins scientist indicates that there might be some truth in the...
Claudius Ptolemy, the second-century Greek mathematician whose word on the heavens was law for some 1,400 years, has long been considered the king of ancient astronomers. Now an iconoclastic physicist is seeking to dethrone him. After an eight-year study of the Syntaxis, Ptolemy's 13-volume...
"There's a little bit of the child in all of us; we all want to be in the circus," says Actress Betty White, who gets her wish in an upcoming Circus of Stars. White's ringmates in the December CBS-TV special will include Actors Peter Fonda...
Will the military government proceed with its plan to hold national elections on Oct. 18? "By jingo, yes," declares Zia, "unless the heavens fall." Despite Bhutto's incarceration, his Pakistan People's Party announced last week that it would contest the elections; it called on party members to...