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...nebula and the formation and sequence evolution of low-mass stars, as well as their nucleosynthesis. He also studied planet formation and the physics of planets and their atmospheres. In 1976, Cameron challenged contemporary beliefs with his new theory for the origin of the moon. He argued that an object at least the size of Mars struck our planet, causing fragments to be strewn into orbit around the Earth. The debris then coalesced into what is now known as the moon. This “giant impact” theory is now widely accepted in the scientific community. Professor...
...lose their built-in supply of students, and the committee did little to explicitly define what a general education looks like other than to highlight interdisciplinarity. At future faculty meetings, the stickiest point will be the three-by-three system—as many faculty members will likely object to a general education structure that doesn’t explicitly require math, or life sciences, or moral reasoning, or foreign cultures. But the answer is simple. If professors teach their courses well, students will come. We look forward to a new paradigm of general education, one where students are empowered...
...Meet The New Planets" discussed some of the recently discovered planetlike objects that are orbiting our sun [Oct. 24] and the difficulty astronomers are having in deciding what is a planet. How about defining a planet as an object that is massive enough to be squeezed into a spherical shape by gravity, does not orbit another such object and orbits the sun in the same plane as the eight objects that we considered planets before 1930? Then Pluto and others with tilted orbits could be called planetoids. There, that was easy...
...influential Judiciary Committee member and his staff organized internal whisper campaigns, say Republican sources, that led to newspaper articles damaging Miers. The strategy was so successful, G.O.P. staff members say, that the White House called Kyl to object. Undaunted, his staff spread word of the disastrous meetings Miers was holding with Senators until White House officials finally said they were canceling the rest of the sit-downs a week before Miers withdrew her nomination, say Hill sources...
...attorney in Washington, he published a novel called The Apprentice, about a young man named Setsuo in turn-of-the-century Japan who becomes enmeshed in a web of crime, political drama, and, of course, love. Of all the characters in the book, it's the mysterious object of Setsuo's affections-"the girl in the cloak"-who seems to parallel Libby most now. Publishers Weekly said in its review of The Apprentice that "her actions, history and motives remain ambiguous...