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...billion to 20 billion years old or thereabouts. That fits beautifully with cosmological theories-but almost nobody believes him anymore. Instead they're listening to a young whippersnapper named Wendy Freedman, who happens to work just down the hall from Sandage at the Carnegie's center in Pasadena, California. Freedman and a group of colleagues have lately used the Hubble Space Telescope to peg the age at somewhere between 8 billion and 12 billion years-which would make the cosmos 2 billion years younger than some of the stars it contains. "Our opponents," says Sandage bitterly, "are so wonderfully kind...
...earth didn't move on Jan. 1, 1954, when NBC aired the tournament of Roses Parade from Pasadena, California -- the first national, commercially sponsored TV program broadcast in living color. In fact, most of the viewers in the 21 cities that carried the show could only imagine the colors, since virtually all TV sets then were still black-and-white. But it was a beginning. Within 20 years, not only did nearly every American home have a television set, but most of the sets were in color. Families were eating their dinner on trays in front of the TV rather...
...acid. These drops created a barrier that could have reflected enough sunlight back into space to drop temperatures to near freezing, and could have remained airborne for decades. "It could have been up to a century," says Kevin Baines, an atmostpheric scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. "Most of us are betting on 20 to 40 years...
...days Heidi Fleiss greets her paying customers with a chirpy "Hi, can I help you?" Typically the first response is a double take as customers grasp that it's really her -- the notorious Hollywood Madam -- there among the boxer shorts and athletic gear at the Heidi Wear shop in Pasadena, California. The second response is to ask Fleiss to autograph their purchases, then to cluck sympathetically about her recent conviction on three counts of pandering and denounce her mandatory sentence of three years as a waste of taxpayer money. Fleiss has heard it all. But last week...
...Paterno: A Nebraska loss and a new corduroy jacket to wear on the Pasadena sidelines January...