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...from being a uniformly distributed collection of galaxies, as the textbooks have long assumed, the cosmos seems to be organized into immense bubbles, each of them about 150 million light-years across. The walls of the bubbles are galaxies, and the interiors appear to be virtually empty. Most surprising of all is a feature Geller and Huchra call the "Great Wall" -- a sheet of galaxies at least 200 million light-years wide, 500 million long and perhaps 15 million thick. It looks like a single structure, but the scientists say it may instead be made up of the walls...
...Pressured by a $300 million lawsuit for compensatory damages filed by more than 100 families, Pan Am has subpoenaed records of six U.S. Government agencies including the CIA, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the State Department. The subpoena suggests that Israel or West Germany relayed serious warnings of a bombing to the U.S. -- and that the warnings were not passed on to Pan Am. The Flight 103 families say Pan Am may merely be trying to shift the blame so it can wriggle out of paying huge claims...
...release Guber, 47, and Peters, 44, from a five-year contract, thereby permitting Sony to hire the pair to run Columbia Pictures Entertainment, which the Japanese firm is acquiring for $3.4 billion. In return, Sony ceded entertainment assets to Warner Bros. that analysts estimated could be worth between $400 million and $600 million. "Sony has paid the most extraordinary price in history for management talent," said Alex Ben Block, editor in chief of the industry newsletter Show Biz News...
...dispute erupted in September, when Sony recruited Guber and Peters to head Columbia for $2.75 million in annual salaries plus profit-sharing bonuses. Sony also agreed to pay $200 million for Guber-Peters Entertainment, which the two men operate. Warner Bros. responded with a $1 billion suit against Sony for inducing Guber and Peters to break their Warner contract. Said Ed Atorino, who follows the entertainment industry for the Wall Street firm Salomon Bros.: "Sony didn't read the fine print. Warner made them...
...Lapin Agile was widely expected to become the most expensive painting ever sold at auction. It had been put on the block at Sotheby's in New York City by heiress Linda de Roulet, whose brother John Whitney Payson had sold Van Gogh's Irises for $53.9 million two years before. It was a far better picture than the Picasso self- portrait, Yo Picasso, that had made a freakish $47.85 million last...