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...stars similar to the sun." It wasn't the first time such planets have been found. But what made this discovery so exciting was that at least one of the new worlds, about eight times the size of Jupiter, is temperate enough for water to exist on it in liquid form. And that raises the tantalizing possibility that it could harbor life...
...Delft, Vermeer probably used the camera obscura--a box with a lens that captures the image of a scene on ground glass. It may be that the circles of confusion--the luminous spots caused by imperfections of the lens--gave him the idea for his poignant highlights, the liquid white dots that sparkle off eyeball, lip or chair and give them such a dewy appearance, as though rendered with an airbrush...
WHEN TWO THUGS SPRAYED A FLAMMABLE LIQUID through a token-booth opening, flicked a match and set Brooklyn subway-token clerk Harry Kaufman on fire--an attack that mimicked a scene in the new movie Money Train--stars Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes expressed deep sorrow and said they were praying for the victim. Columbia Pictures stated it was "appalled and dismayed" at the incident as well...
...SOON AS THEY SAW THE PLUME OF gas, the Mexican truck drivers leaped out of their cabs and ran for the American side of the border. Acrylic acid, a toxic chemical, had leaked from a tanker waiting in line for U.S. Customs inspection, and the liquid was vaporizing as it gathered in a noxious pool. It was "chewing holes in the pavement," says Lee Thompson, who saw it all happen in early November at the border station outside Laredo, Texas. His hazardous-materials response team, fortuitously on the scene for a training exercise, rushed to prevent the highly flammable acid...
NASA's original plan was to launch Galileo from the shuttle in 1982 on a direct, two-year flight to Jupiter. But disputes over the type of rocket most appropriate for the launch delayed the mission for four years. Then, after agreement was reached on the liquid-hydrogen-fueled Centaur rocket, the 1986 Challenger disaster not only shut down the shuttle program for nearly three years but also heightened awareness that the Centaur was too risky for a manned craft--in Van Allen's words, "like carrying a hydrogen bomb, except it's more likely...