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Save for a symbolic ring which many members wear, there are no outward traits which imply membership in the Baha'i; but that doesn't mean there are not distinguishing features of the faith which set members apart...
...ministering to lepers, consumes flakes of a diseased man's skin as if it were the Eucharist. Later another nun tastes the dying Therese's tubercular sputum and makes of it a sacrament of ecstatic commitment. To Cavalier, these acts have a spiritual and physical grace, for they are outward signs of the sisters' bond. In the purest love -- worldly or divine -- nothing is impossible, nothing is impure...
...neutron star can convert about 10% of the mass that falls on it into radiation. If you toss on a marshmallow, you get out the energy of a Hiroshima bomb." A trillion-ton marshmallow every second makes an even bigger splash; the stupendous energy from this perpetual explosion radiates outward | as a steady torrent of X rays...
...Dutch journal Physics Letters B. In their report, two renowned Princeton scientists and a graduate student suggest that the pressure of electromagnetic radiation, emanating from dense "threads" of pure energy called cosmic strings, could have been responsible for making the universe lumpy. That pressure, the theory holds, pushed matter outward, piling it into thin shells and leaving huge voids in the cosmos. "If this theory is correct," says Astrophysicist Jeremiah Ostriker, the theory's co-author, "our views about cosmic-scale structure will be radically changed...
...Soviet Union may be more outward-looking under Mikhail Gorbachev, but a feature on Moscow television last week was nonetheless a stopper. The news program International Panorama showed a favorable five-minute report on McDonald's. Filmed at one of its restaurants in New York City, the segment highlighted the efficiency of the fast-food operation, an uncommon tribute in a land devoted to disdaining capitalism. The salute encouraged McDonald's to hope that its ten-year effort to open restaurants in the Soviet Union will at last succeed...