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...Observatory. Sounds obvious, maybe, but if Freedman and her colleagues are right about their space-telescope observations, it would seem that the universe hasn't caught on to this bit of common sense. The most straightforward interpretation of their data implies that the cosmos is 12 billion years old, max. But experts insist that the oldest stars in the Milky Way have been around for at least 14 billion years. "They could quite easily be several billion years older than that," says Yale's Pierre Demarque...
...else, by the wall labels he rashly insisted on appending to his work. All that these revealed was the vice of the autodidact-a mania for cultural name dropping. They read like Woody Allen. Thus Baseball, 1983-84, came garnished with references to Red Smith, Bill James, Velazquez, Durer, Max Brod, Satchel Paige and, of course, Kafka; while The Sensualist, 1973-84, was prefaced by quotes from Picasso ("My one and only master!") and Matisse ("It is undoubtedly to Matisse that I owe the most"). Then Kitaj: "Cazanne is my favourite painter too ... Maybe that's why he draws...
...Wednesday, the NBA suspended "Mad Max" without pay for at least 10 games and fined him $20,000, the highest in league history. If the suspension is upheld in a lengthy appeals process already underway, Maxwell stands to lose nearly...
...event, the amputations are reportedly being ordered by members of the ruling Baath Party rather than by religious courts, as called for in the Koran. Max Van Der Stoel, a Dutch human-rights monitor for the U.N. in Iraq, who has documented the abuses, says Hussein's real intent is to stifle popular opposition...
Visitors to the University's 20 museums have access to millions of dollars in artifacts ranging from priceless paintings like Max Beckman's self-portrait to valuable gold and quartz crystals...