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...over a year; the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Hale-Bopp home page on the World Wide Web NewProducts.jpl.nasa.gov/comet has posted more than a thousand already, and more are streaming in all the time. The problem, though, is that Hale-Bopp is still what is called an early-morning object, up before the sun and invisible before most folks are out of bed. A spectacular comet is one thing; getting up at 5 a.m. is another...
...skies above his home in Cloudcroft, New Mexico. He was waiting for an already discovered comet to rise over his house when he trained his telescope on M70, a well-known cluster of stars in the constellation Sagittarius. "As soon as I looked," he says, "I saw a fuzzy object nearby. It was strange, because I'd looked at M70 a couple of weeks earlier and the object hadn't been there...
Friendly Fire? If there's o ne thing we know about sitings of strange objects in the sky, it's that you can't always believe your eyes. But as a grand jury prepares to examine a controversial videotape showing a radar view of the explosion of TWA Flight 800, the speculation that the airliner may have been brought down by an errant missile is gaining a bit on the credibility scale. While the FBI has bluntly dismissed descriptions by several eyewitnesses who thought they saw a glowing object approach the craft just before the catastrophic explosion...
Ehrlich said he did not object to Kidd overseeing issues of safety and legality at PBHA, a role outlined in last July's agreement between PBHA and the College...
...human gene pool can be seen as a sort of species-wide natural resource, it's only sensible for the rarest of those genes to be husbanded most carefully, preserved so that every generation may enjoy their benefits. Even the most ardent egalitarians would find it hard to object to an Einstein appearing every 50 years or a Chopin every century. It would be better still if we could be guaranteed not just an Einstein but the Einstein. If a scientific method were developed so that the man who explained general relativity in the first half of the century could...