Word: objectively
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About a year ago, a retired school teacher and amateur astronomer in England sighted an object in the sky traveling toward Earth. He immediatley contacted Brian Marsden, director of the Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams located near the Quad, and within hours, thousands of astronomers across the globe had received descriptions of the sighting...
Marsden had received reports of a similar sighting from other sources and determined that they were the same object. Astronomers in California photographed the region of suspicion, and, shortly after, they confirmed that the object was a comet--one which had come closer to Earth than any other comet in the past 200 years...
...their main characters. Body Double presents a familiar De Palma loner: a pleasant enough wimp who becomes fascinated, then sexually obsessed, with a faraway female figure. This time the wimp is Jack, a movie actor (Craig Wasson), and the love object is a wealthy young woman (Deborah Shelton) with a body as taut and talented as a porn star's. Too soon, Jack finds he must share the fantasy. Another man is watching, one who has more violent designs on the woman: murder by a power drill that moves toward her and through her like the phallus of death...
...Nobel Committee observed, he quickly distinguished himself as "the great theoretician in immunology." His major theories explain how the immune system develops and matures and how its component cells are regulated. A modest man, Jerne remains less impressed with his achievement than with the object of his study. "The immune system now seems more complex than when I started out," he said last week. "I am less optimistic that we will ever be able to understand it fully.'' -By Claudia Wallis...
...masterpieces of their own style. The face of Matisse's Portrait of Madame Matisse, 1913, possibly one of the dozen greatest portraits of the 20th century, was based on a mediocre Fang mask from Gabon. Sometimes, though, a modernist work would take off from an African object of the first rank. Such was the case with Picasso's bronze of Marie-Therese Walter, 1931, whose erotically swollen blimp of a nose is based on an effigy he owned of the fertility goddess Nimba from the Baga. The sight of these two sculptures confronting each other is as much...