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...approval, Begin denounced Khomeini's rule as "an outburst of dark fanaticism, of black hatred." Later he termed the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan "one of the most brutal acts of our time." "Thank God," he noted somewhat smugly at one point, "Egypt and Israel, unlike these two negative phenomena, are on the side of right, not wrong, of justice, not its opposite, of freedom, and not slavery...
Once thought to be convenient cop-outs for unexplained phenomena, or even figments of theorists' imaginations, black holes apparently do exist. Radio and infrared data gathered within just the past few years imply that the centers of all galaxies are dominated by supermassive objects. For example, current exploration of the heart of our own Milky Way galaxy has recently revealed a gargantuan whirlpool of matter whose integrity can be maintained only by the existence of a heretofore unrecognized "something" having several million times the mass of our Sun. Gulping perhaps whole stars, and presumably growing, this bizarre region is probably...
Manhattan (1979). That rarest of contemporary film phenomena-an American comedy of manners-by Woody Allen...
...story has an American rocket ship encountering two curious phenomena in outer space. One is the entrance to the biggest black hole anyone aboard has seen, the other is a large, rather charmingly antique-looking space vehicle parked near it with its lights out. The men of the former craft are absolutely basic: one stalwart captain, one joky copilot, one overdedicated scientist, one slightly shifty civilian and one pretty lady whose function is to be placed in jeopardy. The sole proprietor of the ship they run into is Maximilian Schell, a great long-lost scientist whose ego trips...
Could the Vela satellite, in its electronic wisdom, have "imagined" it? The week's favorite theory was that the burst was really caused by a "superbolt" of lightning 100 times more intense than a normal bolt. Vela satellites have previously observed such phenomena, mainly over the sea and particularly in the vicinity of Japan. But in all previous known instances, a superbolt has emitted a single pulse of light...