Word: planet
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...inhabitants of Earth learned last week that there is another planet, besides the eight they knew about, revolving around the Sun as the earth does. A few of Earth's inhabitants had known the news for some time. The late Percival Lowell (1855-1916), rich traveler turned astronomer, elder brother of President Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard University and of the late poetess Amy Lowell (1874-1925), in 1915 had predicted the existence of another member of the Planet System on its outer fringe...
...point of animals? To ask such questions is mere speciesism, of course. The human race walks around enveloped in an aura of narcissism that would be laughable to any other animal bright enough to appreciate it. Privileged to possess presumably the highest, undoubtedly the dominant intelligence on the planet, humans assume that the rest of creation was provided for their convenience. But people are not merely predators with a taste for meat. The relationship between humans and animals is deep and primitive and ambiguous, both violent and sometimes deeply loving. People admire some animals, and shoot them precisely because they...
...unlikely that, at least until next year's election, there will be any breakthroughs between Washington and Moscow. Nevertheless, Reagan's handling of the tragedy shows how difficult it is for a President to break off all dealings, or impose a significant punishment, on the planet's other superpower. "We've learned," says Marshall Goldman of Harvard's Russian Research Center, "not to burn all our bridges." -By Walter Isaacson. Reported by Erik Amfitheatrof/Moscow and Johanna McGeary/Washington with other bureaus
...country at peace, the U.S. is throwing its military weight around a lot these days. To be sure, no American soldiers are on the attack anywhere in the world. But the U.S. has a remarkable portion of its troops, ships and planes around the planet, including contingents from every branch of the service deployed on three continents, well within shooting distance of hot combat zones-Lebanon, Chad, Central America. This show of force represents nothing so grand or explicit as a "Reagan Doctrine." But President Reagan is clearly not a bit timid about using U.S. military might abroad to serve...
Aumann and Gillett quickly realized that the heat was coming not from the star but from the region around it, extending out about 7.4 billion miles, or twice the distance to Pluto, the sun's outermost known planet...