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...prevailing interpretation of Carrington's peak years of power, when he was Foreign Secretary, has it that he had nearly full control of Britain's foriegn policy while avoiding confrontation with the Prime Minister on domestic issues. Some take issue with that analysis, however. "The simplistic image that he ran foreign policy for three years is not as true as it sounds," asserts Sullivan, a new-school Conservative who was president of the Oxford Union as an undergraduate...
...sure, the surge in trendy children's goods is part of a broader prosperity in the baby business. The post-World War II baby-boom generation is now passing through its peak childbearing years; between 1980 and 1984, the number of American children under age five grew from 16.3 million to 17.8 million. The increase has brought good times for most children's clothing manufacturers, including traditional leaders like Wisconsin-based Oshkosh B'Gosh (1985 sales: $162 million). Demand for products like its sturdy overalls has almost doubled in the past two years...
...coal-black night in March, the kind astronomers like best. At Arizona's Kitt Peak National Observatory, Princeton Astrophysicist Edwin Turner pointed the 158-in. reflecting telescope first at one distant pinpoint of light in the sky, then at a neighboring one. A few hours later, studying the results of his night's labors, Turner could hardly believe his eyes. "It was a big surprise," he says. "But a big surprise is always a clue you might be on the track of something...
...Kitt Peak telescope had been aimed at what appeared to be two quasars, mysterious, intensely bright bodies so far away that the light they emit travels for billions of years before reaching the earth. Gathered by the telescope's parabolic mirror, the light from each of the quasars was converted into a spectrum, from which a quasar's characteristics and even its distance can be determined. Most scientists believe that each of the some 3,000 known quasars, and thus the spectrum of each, is unique. Says Charles Lawrence, a Caltech astronomer and a co-author of the Nature paper...
...Turner confirmed, the two spectra recorded at Kitt Peak were virtually identical. This meant that if each were from a different quasar, the two objects would not only have identical chemical properties and temperatures but also would be the same distance (about 5 billion light-years, in this case) away--a highly unlikely coincidence. "If you get matching fingerprints," Turner says, "you could have images from the same quasar...