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...soared to -23 degrees C (-10 degrees F) -- to set up detectors that would peer at the faint microwave radiation left over from the Big Bang explosion, which theoretically started the universe. In the high altitudes atop the pole's ice cap, the detectors are well above the densest, murkiest layers of atmosphere and can peer through some of the dryest, clearest air on earth to help determine whether the original Big Bang was unique or was followed by smaller ones. A few hundred yards away, close to the enormous geodesic dome that covers the thickly insulated buildings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Antarctica | 1/15/1990 | See Source »

...really gave the H-bomb secrets to the Soviet Union? Newly revealed facts about one of the murkiest episodes in U.S. history yield some intriguing answers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page: Jan. 15, 1990 | 1/15/1990 | See Source »

...some it was the proper reaction. For others it was overreaction. Six months later, the adventure of the Mayaguez remains one of the murkiest "rescues" in American naval history. This fresh, immediate account by Roy Rowan, TIME Hong Kong bureau chief, is not likely to alter many opinions, but it manages to put the event in lucid perspective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: To the Rescue | 11/3/1975 | See Source »

...this is well and good, as are Wilson's command of visual space and dance consciousness, but in the realm of language he makes Gertrude Stein at her murkiest sound like a paragon of pellucid clarity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Exquisite Anarchy | 4/7/1975 | See Source »

...most people at Harvard are concerned, the Center for International Affairs has been the murkiest political issue in recent memory. As of a year ago, in fact, a large majority of the University did not even know what the CFIA was. And when large numbers of students and Faculty first learned of the Center's existence after the Weatherman raid last Fall, they referred to it as "the CIA" until someone decided those initials were at best misleading and at worst unacceptable...

Author: By M. DAVID Landan, | Title: A Distinctly Political Issue | 9/21/1970 | See Source »

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