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...question of whether human beings are the only intelligent life in the universe has baffled scientists for decades. Two Harvard professors think they have identified the equipment they will need to recognize radio waves from outer space, though one of them remains skeptical that alien signals will ever be found. Astronomy Professor Abraham “Avi” Loeb and Professor of Astronomy and Physics Matias Zaldarriaga proposed earlier this month a way to use new radio wave observatories to search for radio emissions from alien civilizations. Loeb, whose main area of research focuses on mapping...
...doctor wife. The Sands has already been raking in a fortune in Macau for two years, and, after a recent expansion, it rates as the largest casino in the world. And he's just getting started. On a band of reclaimed land called Cotai, between Macau's two outer islands, Adelson is creating an Asian Vegas Strip-- practically by himself. By early 2009, he plans to build 12 hotels for $10 billion, anchored by a 3,000-room version of his Vegas classic, the Venetian, with its famous canal and gondola rides. No wonder he derides Wynn's opening...
...been subject to peculiar attacks.THE VICTIMSA mural of fish painted on the stucco wall of a pool near Inman Square was defaced with giant white dollar signs. The muralist, Todd McKie, had been commissioned this past summer by the Cambridge Arts Council (CAC) for the purpose of decorating the outer and inner walls of the pool.A bus shelter was also commissioned for the stop near Russell Field on Rindge Avenue and a series of rose and clear glass panels, covered by a corrugated tin roof, were put in place by minimalist sculptor Taylor Davis.Two weeks after it arrived...
...best seller based on his World War II boyhood in a Japanese internment camp in Shanghai - and the inspiration for Steven Spielberg's 1987 feel-good movie of that name, starring Christian Bale. But Ballard is also famous for a more sinister novel, Crash, about car-wreck aficionados in outer London, which David Cronenberg made into that notoriously creepy 1996 film, set in Los Angeles. Even typical Ballard tales, like Cocaine Nights (1996) or Super-Cannes (2000), are not exactly walks in the high-tech research park. Those two hot-selling thrillers were set in, respectively, a Spanish resort community...
...British textile company. After the family's wartime internment, Ballard studied medicine at Cambridge, trained as a pilot in the Royal Air Force and worked at a scientific journal. He started writing for science-fiction magazines and became a leading figure in sci-fi's New Wave, which eschewed outer space for the more immediate world. "I haven't written any science fiction since the 1960s," Ballard says from his home in the London exurb of Shepperton, where he has lived for 45 years. "I just write what I see happening. I'm a weatherman, trying to forecast what...