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Most reflector telescopes, including the smallest backyard instruments, play a kind of Ping Pong with light entering the open end of the tube, and so does the space telescope. Light strikes the primary mirror, and then is focused and bounced back to a small secondary mirror (12 in. in diameter) directly in front of it. Rebounding off this mirror as well, the captured light will be funneled through a central hole in the principal reflector and onto a bank of scientific instruments: two cameras, two spectrometers (for analyzing light) and a photometer (for measuring its intensity). All the information from...
...fate. The year's been, well, preliminary for Robert Klitgaard--If he could get things finished, maybe next won't be as hard. Across the world, leaders lift their glasses and then drain--Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, toast Saddam Hussein. Let Giscard D'Estaing drink with Yassir Arafat Deng Hsiao-ping, have one on Anwar Sadat. Solidarity will flow through the streets of Warszawa When Brezhnev sips vodka with Lech Walesa. Benigno Aquino and Ferdinand Marcos, share a beer, Ideally, when His Holiness the XVI Karmapa is near...
...allows us to share his feelings of excitement and wonder about the world of natural history. In "The Panda's Thumb" essay, for example, Gould tells us of his childhood adoration of pandas and how delighted he was "when the first fruits of our thaw with China went beyond ping pong to the shipment of two pandas to the Washington zoo. I went and watched with appropriate...
...three, who insist they speak only for themselves, reserve their sharpest criticism for the Gang of Four, who controlled the Chinese Government until they were driven from power by current Premier Deng Xiao Ping in 1978. "We hate them. They made the country disunited," Jia says. Lynn, whose letters from her father in Beijing "always tell me things are getting better," also assails the Gang's repressive policies and deceptive practices...
...with poets and politicians, philosophers and financiers. He discussed psychoanalysis with Sigmund Freud, socialism with George Bernard Shaw, economics with John Maynard Keynes, law with Louis Brandeis, Utopias with H.G. Wells, painting with Bernard Berenson and the grandeur of Charles de Gaulle with Charles de Gaulle. He also played Ping-Pong with Norma Shearer and Irving Thalberg...