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Even the most jaded sky watchers were intrigued last week by three remarkable discoveries reported at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Pasadena, Calif. Two of the finds lend support to current theories about the formation of planets and of galaxies, immense islands of hundreds of billions of stars. But a third -- two gigantic, well-defined arcs of light, as well as fragments of another -- cannot be explained to anyone's satisfaction...
...exotic women who seem to hover around him. He has often been accused of hiring expensive call girls to seduce the men he is attempting to do business with. He amiably confesses to paying for escorts to liven up business functions. The women, he suggests, sweeten the deal. "They lend beauty and fragrance to the surroundings," he says, while sitting on the terrace of his Marbella house overlooking Gibraltar. "They are also intelligent hostesses. I challenge anyone to come forward and prove that I ever told him the girls are available for sex," he says with a smile...
Gorbachev may now seek Sakharov's support on Soviet arms-control proposals. A positive word from Sakharov would undoubtedly lend credibility to Gorbachev's fight to scuttle U.S. plans to develop a space-based missile- defense system, or Strategic Defense Initiative. Western analysts say the teaming of Gorbachev and Sakharov on this issue is not farfetched, given their mutual commitment to arms control. Observes a diplomat: "Judging by what Sakharov has said and written in the past, he would be against SDI if he expressed an opinion...
...real world does not lend itself to fable for long. After the revolution comes the Realpolitik, and happy-ever-afters soon dissolve. The day after her victory, Aquino found herself in charge of one of the world's most desperate countries, saddled with a foreign debt of $27 billion, 20,000 armed Communist guerrillas and a pile of government institutions that bore her predecessors' monogram...
...plethora of dreams flowed from America in the 1920s and '30s; and though, at least on the face of it, we have ceased to share them, they lend a deep and sometimes rather scary poignancy to the remarkable exhibition organized by Art Historians Richard Guy Wilson and Dianne H. Pilgrim, titled "The Machine Age in America, 1918-1941." The show will run until Feb. 16 at the Brooklyn Museum and travel to Pittsburgh, Los Angeles and Atlanta through...