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...first component of the Kuiper belt ever observed. The body, known for now as 1992 QB1, is about 200 km (120 miles) across, and a preliminary calculation puts it at more than 5.1 billion km (3.2 billion miles) away. That doesn't necessarily make it the most remote object in the solar system, since Pluto retreats to more than 7 billion km from the sun. But it does imply that the Kuiper belt and the Oort cloud really exist and that the solar system's boundary may lie 10,000 times as far away as Pluto ever ventures...
...discovery was no accident. David Jewitt, a University of Hawaii astronomer, and Harvard's Jane Luu, now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, had been searching for just such an object for five years. Says Jewitt: "We were trying to understand why the outer solar system is so empty." Is it because there is really nothing out there or because things are just hard...
...object was not to shoot on net," Luzak said, "but to tip it to anybody who might be running on the other side. Derek happened to be there...
Higbie, the Classics Department's newest junior faculty member, arrived this summer at a department whose atmosphere was called "intellectually and ethically intolerable" by two of the departing students last spring. Other graduate students said at the time that they had been the object of sexism in the department...
...objectivity of collage -- taking an image from outside and putting it, whole and entire, in the fictional space of the painting -- appealed to Magritte, because he liked standardized images; it was their encounter and rearrangement that created the magic, more than the things themselves. "Our secret desire," he remarked, "is for a change in the order of things, and it is appeased by the vision of a new order . . . The fate of an object in which we had no interest suddenly begins to disturb us." Turned balusters, game pieces, the little round horse bells known as grelots, cut-out paper...