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...Freedman of the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California, provided the most accurate yardstick ever for gauging the expansion rate, and thus the age, of the universe. Their illogical preliminary answer: the cosmos is between 8 billion and 12 billion years old--or about 2 billion years younger than the oldest known stars. While Freedman and others refine their measurements, cosmologists are scrambling to patch up their theories. To save the idea of the Big Bang, the postulated explosive event that created the universe, they are even talking of reviving the idea of the cosmological constant--a sort of universal antigravity...
Gingrich runs his cathouse efficiently, and since last November he has never had so many hookers. Some of them have been tied up, spanked and sodomized by lawyers and lobbyists for years. Many of them are new to the world's oldest profession, but since arriving in Washington they have been turning tricks with unabashed fervor for Madam Gingrich and his clients...
...about how to improve what happens between teachers and kids, and that's pretty basic." A common complaint is Tesseract's reliance on computer drills. "They are using technology as a baby sitter rather than as a teacher or a creative tool," says Linda Buchanan, who took her two oldest children out of the EAI-run Eleanor B. Kennelly School in September. An EAI spokesperson agrees that students use the computers for drills, but insists the approach is effective...
Still, I think wistfully, America has made a career of transcending itself, of leaving its worse selves behind. If it had not, the U.S. would have devolved into a sort of continental Beirut long ago. The worse self that should now be left behind may be the oldest residual American self--the racial-tribal. The continuation of the American idea depends upon the nation's transcending that. All Americans will arrive at civilization together, or they will not arrive...
Nicholas Leeson, the man accused of singlehandedly destroying one of Britain's oldest investment banking firms, has decided to drop his efforts to avoid returning to Singapore for prosecution. Leeson, 28, fled Singapore for Germany last February when news of his futures trading fiasco was revealed. According to Singaporean investigators, Leeson, who was the general manager of futures trading for Britain's Barings bank in Singapore, wiped out some $1.38 billion of the bank's funds in Asian futures markets. The loss was more than the 232-year-old investment institution could cover. Leeson was charged with eleven counts...