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NASA officials, with their normal tumble of superlatives, deemed the mission a "great success." Said the chief mission scientist, Eugene Urban: "Scientists will be busy for years working with these data." Yet a few gremlins still lurk. Three times in the past year, the launch procedures have resulted in near disaster. And though Discovery waits eagerly on deck, ready for a late August launch, NASA remains way behind schedule. --By Natalie Angier. Reported by Jerry Hannifin/Kennedy Space Center
Here at Harvard, where a 750 SAT math score is a skeleton to be locked firmly in the closet, one might be forgiven for thinking math is pretty easy. Yet beware! For amongst you—in every pore of the social fabric—lurk the mathematically disinclined. A recent Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) survey serves to remind the forgetful just how awful Americans are at math. The U.S. came in 24th out of the 29 OECD countries ranked...
...black hole is a singularity, a spot where density and gravity appear to become infinitely great-- unleashing forces that could rip a hole in the very fabric of space-time and send a brand-new universe expanding in a direction undetectable and imperceptible to us. Since giant black holes lurk at the cores of many billions of galaxies and smaller holes are left behind by many billions of individual exploding stars, that could mean our cosmos has given birth to a staggering number of baby universes. And each of those could give birth in turn to billions more...
...with the sound of a plane flying overhead, but the holiday of the title is no global jaunt. In his most affected sneer, Ryder describes a drug binge under belted-out celebratory cries of “Holiday!” Sounds of airport announcements and seagulls squawking violently lurk in the background while he claims, “We’re here to harass you / we want your pills and grass...
...kids, she is fond of order and rules and schedules. It's just like my old Sunnyvale School, a quiet pond of books and pen and paper. But a parent stands on a precipice. Adolescence looms ahead, which nowadays can begin at around the age of 8. Drug dealers lurk in the alley; nihilist rock 'n' roll wafts up from the storm sewer; the culture of covetousness is everywhere...