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...giant specialty-chemicals and health-services company. By focusing on Grace's core businesses and selling off subsidiaries, he was credited with bringing the company back to profitability. But colleagues say that over the past year or so Bolduc had begun to seem impatient about his long wait to inherit the top job from Grace, who is suffering from lung cancer. Where previously Bolduc had treated his boss with deference, he was now apt to roll his eyes whenever the elderly Grace rambled on at board meetings. As a sign of his power, he began cutting off the older...
When did the universe start? Our confusion about this might stem from the arbitrary assumption that the cosmos was created by a single Big Bang at a single point in time. What we should ask is, When did the last Big Bang take place, and what did we inherit from the previous universe? There may never have been a beginning, only an endless series of Big Bangs and Big Crunches--an endless chain of past and future universes, born, collapsed and recreated, each inheriting something from the previous one, an eternal cosmic drama taking place in an N-dimensional space...
...know if I'll inherit his cult following--after his term ended in January, several anxious readers called to find out what had happened to him, one even to find out his post-graduation plans--and I doubt my face plastered on page 3 every week will jump start as many hearts...
Eliminating Space Station Freedom will not have a significant impact on solving any of the problems Andorsky cites. On the other hand, to "turn our backs on a dream" means, in sharp contrast to his belief, that we shall never "inherit the stars." As the history of science and space technology has demonstrated again and again, dreams and ideals are what successes are made of. Kenneth...
...turn our backs on a dream, no matter how distant it is and no matter how briefly we turn away. But the universe has waited for us for fifteen billion years; a couple more won't really matter. One day we will inherit the stars, but for now we should concentrate our efforts upon things that are a bit closer to home...