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...their evenings scanning the skies for heavenly intruders; David Levy, an amateur astronomer, often helps them. When the partners found Shoemaker-Levy 9 in 1993, they knew it was unusual, and further observation revealed that it was not one comet but at least 21 fragments, remnants of a single object that had been torn apart a year earlier by Jupiter's gravity -- and that all would crash into the massive planet between July 16 and July 22 in the most violent event in the recorded history of the solar system...
...quite so big a deal as Clinton had hoped. Symbolism was the object of much of his European jaunt, which after Latvia continued through Poland and Italy for the weekend summit meeting of the Group of Seven major industrial powers in Naples, and is to conclude this week with two days in Germany. But though the President once again showed a talent for thoughtful speeches to foreign parliaments and Reaganesque photo ops, he could never quite get Americans' minds -- or his own mind -- off his manifold problems elsewhere. In U.S. headlines and on TV newscasts, his efforts were upstaged...
Neuroscientists Antonio and Hanna Damasio and three collaborators analyzed the battered 170-year-old skull of one Phineas Gage, whose cranium had been preserved as an object of medical fascination. Gage was a reliable fellow, well regarded by his workmates on the Rutland and Burlington Railroad. But on Sept. 13, 1848, while using explosives to prepare Vermont's craggy terrain for track, he suffered a hideous accident. Briefly distracted, the 25-year-old foreman triggered a premature explosion that launched a pointed iron rod, thick as a broomstick, right through his skull. The rod rocketed through his face, excising...
...sport should be able to appreciate the deft footwork necessary to shield a ball from three attackers, or the agile kick that propels a ball on a perfect are to the far post of the goal. Soccer is, after all, just another game that asks for an object to be moved from one side of the field to another. Its mechanics are little different from football, hockey, basketball, lacrosse, polo and many others. Americans should have no trouble watching soccer avidly, when they spend so much time watching men move other projectiles around for fabulous amounts of money...
...There's a very sharp concentration of light in a small place in the center of the galaxy as if there was some object there keeping stars in a close orbit," Kirshner says...