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...many cases, though, the ground-based giants can find their own way through the universe. Geoff Marcy, for example, leader of the world's most prolific planet-hunting team, began his research at the relatively modest 3.5-m telescope at Lick Observatory in California. Then, in 1996, he moved most of his project to the Keck, with dramatic results. "We've discovered 35 planets orbiting sunlike stars so far," says Marcy, who holds joint appointments at the University of California, Berkeley, and San Francisco State University. "And the majority of them have been with the Keck...
Keeping warm can be a primitive but pleasing science. In a fireplace you organize the logs in harmonious balance between wood and air--fuel for the flames to lick and curl about and combust, encouraged by just the right oxygen and draw. A good fire is self-consuming architecture...
...Feel Fine" A great guitar lick; probably the first feedback ever heard on a pop record; an uncanny combination of yearning and affirmation, all under three minutes. Perfect pop single, anyone...
...week the Pulau Tiga-based game show aired, ABC scheduled the virtually unbeatable Who Wants to Be a Millionaire against it. Survivor won in almost every audience category. The second week, Survivor won hands down. By the third week--when Regis Philbin, monochrome outfit in tatters, slunk away to lick his wounds, leaving Two Guys and a Girl and Norm to take his butt whuppin' for him--Survivor had ballooned into the biggest TV success since the last voyeur-vision landmark: Fox's gift to late-night comedians, Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire? Which--we know, we know...
...anti-anti-Castro Cuban Americans--he postponed the hearings (forever, perhaps?) and rethought the possible witnesses. But Democrats will surely insist on calling "the Fisherman"--a cross between Kato Kaelin and William Ginsburg. It will be a priceless television moment when Dalrymple tells how he and Marisleysis let Elian lick his face. The Democrats will also relish hearing from the paramilitary group, Alpha 66, and the four guards with concealed-weapons permits who patrolled the encampment...