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...this week, Pioneer is 6 billion miles from Earth, making it the most distant man-made object in the universe. Its signals--barely discernible against the cacophony of background space noise--continue to register on the giant radio telescopes of NASA's Deep Space Network, reassuring scientists that Pioneer is still alive and calling home. Perhaps most remarkable, those signals emanate from an 8-watt transmitter, which radiates about as much power as a bedroom night light, and take more than nine hours to reach Earth...
...vast specialized literature cascaded from universities. Questions of race, gender and politics came into the study of art history, along with the more familiar ones of iconography, style, subject matter and patronage. The old division between "high" and "decorative" arts ceased to hold. The once "merely" ornamental object came to be as full of meaning as a nude or ducal portrait. The more that was known about the world's art, the more there was to know. An obvious example, which suggests the kind of shifting sands on which "definitive" edifices of art history are built, has been the ongoing...
...After election, in typical Clintonesque indecisiveness, he pronounced his "don't ask, don't tell" policy. Clinton didn't come to a compromise where everybody got a little of what they wanted; rather, all Clinton's policy aimed to do was make sure that more mainstream America did not object to harshly while simultaneously telling liberals that he had attacked the problem. In reality, he broke his promise to homosexuals and did nothing to solve the conflict...
Those who object to fraternities (and final clubs) usually do so on two grounds. The first is pragmatic: They're a bad element, they promote drunkenness and endanger women, and they fragment the campus social scene. The second is more fundamental: Single sex social institutions are discriminatory and elitist, and hence we can't condone them morally...
While some of his stories do have a definite narrative line, others are complete nonsense. The majority of his work, as in the following excerpt from "The Object Lesson," is a combination of the two: "At twilight, however, no message had come from the asylum, so the others retired to the kiosk, only to discover the cakes iced a peculiar shade of green...