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...some combination of drives, feelings, ways of seeing, and ways of saying--it must be not simply worn, but used; that if he remained sober, the problem would become one of seeing the universe as truly as seeing himself--and working, digging, grappling, sweating to discover his own role." --Jacob Brackman '65, in The Art of Fine Words...
Five starters are gone from the Bruin defense, but the top defensive backfield in the Ivies returns, featuring bona fide pro prospect Ron Brown. This unit is a couple of linebackers (co-captain Neil Jacob is kaput for the season with a broken arm) and a defensive lineman away from being devastating. As it stands now they'll just have to hold their ground while Whipple and Farnham do the rest...
...Cambridge, he and a colleague, Roger Penrose, showed more convincingly than ever before that if Einsteinian general relativity is correct, gravitational collapse will result in "singularities" that are totally hidden inside black holes. But Hawking did not stop there. Following up the work of John Wheeler's student, Jacob Bekenstein, he pointed out that there are important mathematical analogies between the bizarre otherworld of black holes and the familiar physical rules of thermodynamics, notably the idea of entropy-which says, in effect, that the universe is running down like an unwinding clock...
...said to Jacob: "Arise, go up to Beth-El, and dwell there...
...command to Jacob is being obeyed by his Jewish descendants. High on a hilltop above the valleys of the West Bank, 35 families belonging to Israel's ultranationalist Gush Emunim are building a new settlement named Beth-El. They claim that 120 Jewish families are waiting to move into the settlement, nine miles north of Jerusalem, in territory that Israel has occupied since the 1967 war. There are plans for schools, a religious study center, an industrial area and even a holiday resort...