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...Space Telescope, a 2.4 m (94 in.) mirror scheduled to be placed in orbit by the space shuttle in the early 1980s. Flying above the obscuring atmosphere, this observatory should pick up a variety of celestial phenomena, including infrared and ultraviolet radiation, and reveal hidden structural details of galaxies that may harbor black holes...
...House popularity is determined by a number of factors--not just its architecture. Among the most subjective determinants of popularity seems to be the House image. One of the most extraordinary phenomena of the past few years has been the loss of popularity of Adams House, once the perennial favorite because of its proximity to the Yard, as well as its physical accouterments, which include a swimming pool and enough tunnels to keep mole happy...
...mistake about it, a new discipline of life history is what Levinson is after. Because he believes no single existing discipline is able to study men's lives as they evolve in the world--each being limited by the questions it poses for itself and the types of phenomena it chooses to study--Levinson is explicitly calling for a massive redirection of psychology, the life sciences, and the social sciences towards the study of the individual life as it is lived in the world. Obviously, the man has chutzpah, but if he is right in his conclusions then such...
Direct experience is the basis of any science. This is a strong statement, but true in more ways than one. First, if a person is to do science, he must hold the assumption that the phenomena he wishes to study are orderly, behaving according to certain principles or laws. If this could not be assumed, what would be the point of studying anything...
...classes I were to justify my answers to philosophical questions by saying that they had been revealed to me in a communion with the Absolute. I believe that the university would have the right, in deed the obligation, to silence me. If Professor Wertha is maintaining that the supposed phenomena concerning auras, reincarnation, etc. have been factually established, then I believe he ought to be silenced or removed...