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During their frigid all-nighters on Palomar Mountain, Gene guides the telescope, shooting two pictures, 40 min. apart, of each patch of sky. After developing the film in the observatory darkroom, he turns the negatives over to Carolyn, who scans each set of two under her stereo microscope. If anything has moved against the background of fixed stars during the 40-min. interval, it appears to float in the eyepiece. If so, it is an asteroid or comet and might someday present a threat...
Nothing has brought Hamas more attention around the world than the frigid exile of the 415 men expelled by the Israeli government Dec. 17 and since stranded in a wintry patch of southern Lebanon, which refuses to take them in. Their banishment made them heroes in the occupied territories, stirring a sense among followers of the Islamic movement that their moment has come. Palestinian fundamentalists feel that they are on the verge of supplanting the secular Palestine Liberation Organization as the dominant force among their people and as the vanguard in the struggle against Israel. In part, Hamas...
Advocates on both sides of the subsidy issue acknowledge that in the long run, free trade benefits everyone. Seven successful GATT negotiations since 1947 have helped lift global commerce from $57 billion to nearly $3.5 trillion. The U.S. and the E.C. may very well patch together a compromise. "My prediction is that France will back off just enough to make a deal possible," said Lawrence Veit, international economist at Brown Bros. Harriman & Co. in New York City...
...never at the expense of complexity. An explanation of how species evolve may require more attention than Homo televideous is willing to muster. Hang in. Accounts of the author's field experiences convey an excitement of discovery that many readers probably last felt as children examining insects in a patch of grass...
...remember those insatiable, obnoxious shoppers, knocking you out of the way to get the last Cabbage Patch in the store? Well, inside the Coop it gets worse...