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Crawford explained that the differences between the Serbians and the ethnic Albanians are more deeply rooted than differences between other groups in the region, all of which are of Slavic origin...

Author: By Brady R. Dewar, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: International Experts Explain Kosovo Crisis at Study Group | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

Peed said that phenomena such as free will and the origins of laws could not be traced to a scientific origin...

Author: By Jordana R. Lewis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: God's Existence Debated | 4/8/1999 | See Source »

...peaceable Nells. Goddard's trusting exchanges with German scientists had given Berlin at least a glimpse into what he was designing. What's more, by 1945 he had filed more than 200 patents, all of which were available for inspection. When a captured German scientist was asked about the origin of the V-2, he was said to have responded, "Why don't you ask your own Dr. Goddard? He knows better than any of us." When some V-2s finally made their way to the U.S. and Goddard had a chance to autopsy one, he instantly recognized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rocket Scientist ROBERT GODDARD | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...recall with great fondness my first visit to Nairobi in 1970 when Louis ceremoniously led me to the room housing the crown jewels of human evolution. Every fossil took on a mythical cast as he waxed eloquent about how it revealed some magic moment of our origins. Here he was, the grand master, sharing his passion, knowledge and intuition with a new disciple. He was often like that: generous, open, supportive, always trying to win new converts to his way of working, his way of interpreting the past. Born in Kenya of English missionaries, Louis was initiated by tribal elders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anthropologists: THE LEAKEY FAMILY | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...American radio astronomers Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson accidentally discover cosmic background radiation, which bolsters the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Century of Science | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

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