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...when the telescope is completed, it will be one of the most useful astronomical instruments in the world, according to Kirshner. He says the first mirror is cast and ready to be ground and polished at the University of Arizona...

Author: By Michael T. Jalkut, | Title: Astronomy Department Seeks | 5/22/1996 | See Source »

Jacobsen says his main concern is the study of catalysts with chirality, or handedness. A catalyst with this quality is capable of distinguishing between molecules which are mirror images of each other in the same way that a person's left and right hand are mirror images...

Author: By Halton A. Peters, | Title: Jacobsen Reaches for the Stars in Chemistry | 4/30/1996 | See Source »

...especially unworthy to take on the role of representing computer science, because I had written pieces that many colleagues regarded as traitorous. The aspect of my first book, Mirror Worlds, that attracted the most attention was the debate between pro- and antitechnology alter egos; my skeptical side won. I'd also published attacks on the use of computers in school. Parents plead for a decent education in the basics, reading and writing and history and arithmetic, and too many teachers respond with vacuous fun and games with computers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNABOMBER: A VICTIM REFLECTS ON THE EVIL COWARD | 4/15/1996 | See Source »

Director Franco Zeffirelli, whose views mirror the Pope's on most issues, isn't enamored of the artistic taste of the Vatican. When it named 45 films with worthy religious content, none were his. He fumed, "My films have brought about many more conversions than all those cited in this absurd list...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 25, 1996 | 3/25/1996 | See Source »

...corgi looks as if it were put together with the unrelated body parts of three or four other breeds--the parts, as it happens, that each breed most longed to get rid of when it looked in the mirror every morning. ("If I could just get some other dog to take this little sausage of a torso, I could go places on these legs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALL THE LOVELY PIGEONS | 3/25/1996 | See Source »

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