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...region of space, where they will form clouds of gas and dust that can coalesce into new stars and planets. Indeed, most of the elements abundant on earth today, except hydrogen, were cooked up in some star that became a supernova. Says Woosley: "The calcium in our bones, the iron in hemoglobin and the oxygen we all breathe came from explosions like this...
...modern temper. But judged by the canons of good photography, those pictures looked fumbled, invertebrate. Klein's anarchic strengths went unappreciated by eyes looking for nice tonal gradations and the standard ironies. Where were the compositional ligaments that held even the airiest Andre Kertesz photo in an iron fist? Where was the fine printing? For that matter, where was the subject...
...stroke. He fell out of contention, but the shot still meant $4,500 in lost pay. Twice, that same situation has cost Tom Kite tournament championships and a total of $59,800. Such scrupulous honesty is the rule in professional golf, though there are exceptions. Using her trusty antitrust iron, Jane Blalock once had to go to court to fight off a lynch mob of fellow competitors who wanted to ban Blalock for the way she marked her ball on the green. Bob Toski, her teaching pro at the time, prescribed professional help of a different kind. Publicly he wondered...
...guard bangs on iron doors, rousing Begun and some 25 others in the prison's political wing. They must rise or risk punishment...
...Iron and Silk is not so much a treatise on modern Chinese mores as a series of telling vignettes. When a clerical worker at the college committed suicide, her funeral could not be held or her family consoled until, four days later, local Communist Party officials announced that "her problems were personal and not political." Salzman killed a rat in his classroom, and his students merrily escorted him and his quarry to the local Rat Collection Office, where he was entitled to a 5 cents bounty. A young man teaching Salzman calligraphy was surprised when the American confided that...