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...period was mounted by students still at liberty in Soweto, as a mark of respect for their absent colleagues. After some initial resistance, Soweto's elders generally complied with leaflets distributed by SSRC calling for a moratorium on Christmas presents, parties, the exchange of greeting cards and any other outward sign of celebration. One group of students went so far as to break up a wedding ceremony as "inappropriate"; since then, many marriages have been postponed. One SSRC leaflet warns "it is on such occasions that liquor is served and people generally tend to be drunk and merry...
...uncannily close to the truth. The universe, they believe, is the expanding remnant of a huge fireball that was created 20 billion years ago by the explosion of a giant primordial atom. The debris of the fireball, like the fragments of a titanic bomb, is still speeding outward from this cataclysmic blast, which started the process that produces not only stars and planets but also the complex structures of life. This startling concept, called the big bang theory, picked up its first substantial scientific support in 1929, when Astronomer Edwin Hubble used shifts in the spectral lines of light emanating...
...star's red-giant phase lasts until the hydrogen in the layer around the core is exhausted, perhaps as long as a billion years. The stage that follows is short-lived. Its fires banked, the star is deprived of the outward radiation pressure. It contracts violently, driving the core temperature up again, until it reaches 200 million degrees. That is hot enough to ignite the helium, which fuses into a still heavier element: carbon. Its radiation energy restored, the star zooms back toward red-giant status 100 times faster than it took to get there the first time...
Although the group has brought black women together--62 of the about 150 black women at Radcliffe are members--Brown doesn't think the problems of coping with Harvard are being internalized. "We're not just huddling together, we're outward moving. By letting freshmen and sophomores know what we've been through, they can avoid running into the same obstacles...
Their potential seems unbounded. The women turned inward to cultivate the strength to look outward, and it seems that strength has begun to grow. The members speak with pride and confidence of what they have done, what they hope to do, and how they feel about themselves. A supportive morale is emerging, growing from the warmth and spirit they have found in their sisterhood...