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Named for Edwin Hubble, the great astronomer who discovered in the 1920s that the universe is expanding, the space telescope has a mirror 2.4 meters (7.9 ft.) in diameter that will focus light on an array of cameras and instruments. After recording and analyzing the radiation, the instruments will translate it into electronic impulses and beam it down to earth at a prodigious rate -- fast enough to fill a 30-volume encyclopedia in 42 minutes. Moreover, the Hubble will literally view the stars in a new light: the space observatory can see ultraviolet radiation that fails to reach ground telescopes...
FOOTNOTE: *Antiprotons and positrons are examples of antimatter, a rare set of particles that mirror normal matter. A proton is positively charged, but an antiproton is negative. The counterpart of the negative electron is the positive positron...
...better known from posters and magazines than from trend-setting galleries. Mounted by William S. Lieberman, the Metropolitan's curator of 20th century art, "Folon's Folons" rounds up almost 70 watercolors and prints from the artist's own collection, as well as several objects -- frames, a hand mirror, a ceramic plaque -- that the artist has "transformed" into artworks...
...future utopia at Harvard in which a perverse sexual morality reigns and heterosexuals are executed for their failure to "experiment with an alternative lifestyle." The author doesn't recognize the irony that the improbable, intolerant nightmare she envisages--one for which no liberal would ever wish--is merely a mirror image of the more conventional sexual morality that she evidently sincerely wishes to impose on everyone...
Instead, the Crimson just saw a mirror image of last Wednesday's game. Two of the men who lost on Wednesday jumped back to victories on Sunday, while two who won on Wednesday fell to defeat the second time around. For Piltch's other five, Sunday's match was Wednesday: Part...