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...that they had made the most precise measurement yet of an object at the galactic center within Sgr A*, which for two decades has been known to be radiating large amounts of energy. The size and shape of Sgr A*, and its energetic output, says Caltech Astronomer Kwok-yung Lo, are strong evidence that "there may be a black hole in the center of our galaxy" devouring matter at a rapid rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Milky Way's Hungry Black Hole | 6/3/1985 | See Source »

...stepchildren who stand to inherit millions, the sleeping heiress who was allegedly the target of a murder attempt most foul, all set against the gilded backdrops of Newport, R.I., and Manhattan. But this time there is the promise of new and quirky characters, while the once icy defendant, lo and behold, seems to have come to life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Take Two: The Von Bulow trial resumes | 5/6/1985 | See Source »

Dietz said Hong Kong's rowers consider the annual race, held on the Mi Lo river, "a reenactment of a moment in history," commemmorating the death of poet and former government minister Chu Yan, who drowned in the river...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Crew Members May Go to Hong Kong for Famed Dragon Boat Race | 2/27/1985 | See Source »

...scripts. Gurney has been for the stage what Cheever was for fiction: the foremost chronicler of the foibles and angst of the Wasp upper middle class. The adaptation succeeded. But it also pointed up a significant difference between Cheever's striving suburbia and Gurney's blue- blood Buffa- lo: while many of Cheever's bedeviled characters are avidly accumulating, almost all of Gurney's etiolated aristocrats are watching the family fortune fade away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Revelations the Snow Ball | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

...seventh annual festival, to be held June 10, has its origins in the fourth century B.C. The races are held to commemorate the death of Chu Yuan, a legendary Chinese poet and patriot who cast himself into the Mi Lo River in an act of protest. The races are a re-enactment of his tragic death...

Author: By Richard L. Callan, | Title: The Far Eastern sprints | 6/7/1984 | See Source »

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