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There is less debate about where comets originate. The most widely accepted explanation is that of Dutch Astronomer Jan Oort, who says that comets exist by the billions in a vast swarm of debris beyond Pluto that stretches halfway to the nearest star, Proxima Centauri. The debris, called Oort's Cloud, coalesced from the swirling dust and gases in the original solar nebula, from which the sun, earth and other planets and moons were formed. Thus comets are primordial matter, largely unchanged since the solar system's birth. (Lyttleton ascribes a different origin to the comets: he thinks...
...their motherland by the imperialists who divided China early in this century. In addition, India's Northeast Frontier Agency is claimed by China as part of its former dependencies. In 1962, the Chinese moved 30,000 troops into the territory--where the inhabitants are predominantly Tibeto-Burmese of Mongolian origin--and laid claim...
...seer-sucker, ladies and gentlemen slender and adept: they learn to be the managers of their own self-introspection and self-accusation. Should they become intolerably disturbed, someone in the Mental Health Department of the pre-paid medical plan will tell them that their guilt is of neurotic origin and ought not be given opportunity to distress them. Guilt, in any case, they will be told, is not "productive." Skull of infant, blood and bone, the desperation of young mothers in the back-street clinic of the Boston slums: it does not go with sherbet and seersucker...
...Death at an Early Age and Free Schools. He aims at radical reform of the school system, particularly in libraries and history departments, and support of alternative schools. He advocates an educational census to determine the number of bilingual and crippled children and illiterate adults of non-English speaking origin to establish programs suited to their needs...
Black Britons are also beginning to bridge the gap between themselves and Britain's other "coloreds"--the English catchall term applied to blacks of West Indian or African origin, Asians, and even Britons of Cypriot ancestry. Like blacks, Britain's other "coloreds" face substantial discrimination. Asian immigrants live in scandalously poor conditions, and if they are found to have entered Britain illegally, they are sometimes repatriated immediately without their families even being notified...