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...Rehnquist chided his brethren for not deferring to the legislature's judgment on the law's purpose. Moreover, wrote the court's leading conservative, "the Establishment Clause does not require that the public sector be insulated from all things which may have a religious significance or origin...
...giant, rapidly spinning ball of hydrogen and helium, surrounded by rings of icy debris and numerous satellites, including the largest moon in the solar system. Still, many questions remain. What are Saturn's rings made of? Can they be traced back to the solar system's origin 4.6 billion years ago, or did they evolve later from the breakup of passing objects captured by Saturn's gravity...
This was John Bartlett, the mild and scholarly proprietor of the University Book Store in Cambridge, Mass., who was asked so often about the origin of some quotation or other that he decided in 1855 to print a small (295 pages) collection that he entitled Familiar Quotations. Out this month from Little, Brown, in which Bartlett eventually became a senior partner, is the 15th edition of his little collection, the first updating in ? twelve years. Now 1,540 pages, with 22,500 quotations, it is a sockdolager, Nearly 3,000 of the quotations are new| to this edition, ranging from...
...trait that seems to transcend the change of government is antipathy for the Soviet Union. As Bing says, "All hate the Russians. All Chinese hate the Russians. It has a long origin in history...
Sagan published his first paper at 22. Its title was an echo from his days with Muller and a sign of his growing interest in exobiology: "Radiation and the Origin of the Gene." A key point was that radiation may have been the trigger for the combination of the first DNA molecules. Eventually some 300 more papers would follow, including a particularly brilliant bit of deduction about the planet Venus. At the time, many scientists still regarded Venus as a kind of sister planet of the earth with a benign climate. But radio emissions from the planet were hinting...