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EINSTEIN'S GIANT LENS
Ordinarily, Ellis explains, you could never see small galaxies a mere 500 million years after the Big Bang; they're just too faint for any telescope now in existence. But the universe itself has supplied a way of boosting a telescope's magnifying power. The theory of relativity says massive...
Concerns over avian flu have given the birds of Asia bad press of late. But there's ample opportunity to enjoy the region's dazzling array of 1,900 bird species at a safe distance. Asia boasts plenty of sites in urban areas, or within striking distance of major cities...
THE SUMMER OF BABY SURI When it comes to developing great American conspiracy theories, the Roswell and J.F.K. folks have nothing on seekers of infant Suri Cruise. Since she was just a bump in her mom's obsessively studied tummy, the now 4-month-old daughter of enthusiastic unmarried parents...
In 1994 al-Qaeda foreshadowed the London plot almost exactly when Pakistani terrorist Ramzi Yousef and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who went on to mastermind the 9/11 attacks, drew up a scheme to bomb 12 planes over the Pacific during a 48-hour period. They nicknamed the plan Bojinka. They intended...