Word: matters
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...faint afterglow of the Big Bang explosion, which started the universe, and they pose a riddle. The glow is uniform in all directions to within 1 part in 10,000, implying that the Big Bang was a perfectly uniform explosion. But the modern universe is filled with clusters of matter called galaxies, and there is no clear explanation of how a smooth explosion could produce a lumpy cosmos. COBE's sensitive microwave detectors will try to determine just how perfect the radiation's smoothness really...
...Tower too went through, not long ago, the humiliation of having his private life made public. Yet that was because Tower, like Gary Hart and Dan Quayle before him, was in line for a position in which discretion is imperative; the Secretary of Defense's self-control is a matter of national welfare. All that is at stake in the Boggs case is dreams. We do not care whether our car mechanic, say, is a philanderer, so long as he does the job that he is paid to do; so too with our athletes. We pay our baseball players...
...Broadway. "I'm normally a self-deprecating person," she says, putting it mildly. "But when I saw those women on stage in the feminist rap group, I said, 'Good for them, and good for us.' This is a play of ideas. Whether you agree or not doesn't matter...
Given the growing popularity of in-vitro fertilization, it was just a matter of time before a case like this one arose. During nine years of marriage, Junior Davis, 30, and his wife Mary Sue, 28, tried repeatedly and unsuccessfully to have a child. That experience led the couple six years ago to a fertility clinic in Knoxville, where eggs taken from Mrs. Davis were fertilized in a laboratory with her husband's semen...
...Does it matter, considering Konovalchik's new role as Harvard's "transition team director...