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...additive 15. They're fighting to oust the Israelis 17. Part of B & B 18. Feedbag morsel 19. Whittle away 21. __ & Wesson has agreed to make products childproof 24. Sponge feature 26. Basra is Iraq's primary one 27. Indy 500 sponsor 28. It's ceasing monthly publication 32. Mauna __ 33. __ Teng-hui is stepping down as Nationalist party chairman 34. Aging orbiter 35. Word on some cornerstones 37. Jeanne d'__ 38. Indian princess 39. They're setting up a neutral zone in Yugoslavia 41. Jiang __ will meet with Chen Shui-bian only if they talk about one-China policy...
...Reports Online at CONSUMERREPORTS.ORG, only Amazon.com wins top honors for "a very satisfying shopping experience." Rated by the five-point system used in the print magazine, the site evaluates e-merchants based on content, usability and policies. Lillian Vernon's catalog site is labeled "inconvenient" and "tedious," while the Mauna Loa Macadamia Nut site gets dinged for its "poorly cross-referenced search engine." Just so-so sites include Victoria's Secret, Frederick's of Hollywood, Brookstone and The Sharper Image.The detailed ratings are available to members who pay $24 a year...
...stir is nothing remarkable. Known to astronomers as Eugenia, it measures about 133 miles across and is one of thousands of bits of cosmic flotsam in the great rubble stream between Mars and Jupiter. When an international team of astronomers working at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) on Mauna Kea in Hawaii turned their attention toward Eugenia one evening last fall, however, they spotted something curious. Off on the upper-left corner of the fuzzy-looking image was another smear of light they couldn't identify. "These blobs are often artifacts of the optics," says astronomer William Merline, head...
Only a few observatories have mirrors over 6.5 meters, and Magellan's inclusion of two identical mirrors enhances its field of view, resolving power and total viewing time. Presently, the largest observatory in the world is the 10-meter Keck twin telescopes on Mauna Kea in Hawaii...
...origin, evolution and structure are excruciatingly faint, and it takes every bit of skill observers have to tease out their secrets. It hasn't been until the past decade, in fact, that astronomers have had powerful telescopes like the Hubble out in space and the Keck atop Hawaii's Mauna Kea, ultrafast supercomputers and super-sensitive electronic light detectors to give them the data they hunger for. In a very real sense, cosmology has only lately crossed the dividing line from theology into true science...