Word: planeteers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...THOSE FEW SOULS ON the planet who haven't yet wrestled with giant computer-operating systems like Microsoft's Windows 95, memory compression probably sounds like something that starts to set in around the fourth margarita. To the rest of the computer-using public, though, it sounds like a dream come true. Imagine: instead of shelling out hundreds of dollars to feed your system's insatiable appetite for memory, you simply run a $30 program that squeezes the necessary storage space out of your existing chips, instantly increasing their effective capacity by a factor of two or more...
...suggesting that some stars in the universe are older than the universe itself. At the core of one galaxy it has found a black hole as massive as 3 billion suns. It has made scientists front-row spectators at the collision of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 and the planet Jupiter. And it has begun to unravel the riddle of the brilliant beacons of cosmic light known as quasars. Go to any astronomy conference these days, and you'll find half the scientific papers are based on space-telescope observations. "The Hubble," declares University of Arizona astronomer Rodger Thompson, "is fundamentally...
GALAPAGOS: A GLIMPSE INTO OUR PLANet's future and another lost opportunity. PETER J. COURI JR. Peoria, Illinois...
YOUR ARTICLE STRENGTHENS A BELIEF I have long held, that human beings are a singularly vicious, selfish and shortsighted species whose status as rulers of the world seems to contradict Darwin's theory of survival of the fittest. Continued disregard of the planet we live on will surely cause us to be "naturally selected'' right out of the picture. SCOTT KNUDSEN New York City
...other four gods he presents contain a similar mixture of idealism and practicality. "The Spaceship Earth" depicts all humans as stewards of a fragile planet, implicitly teaching tolerance and social responsibility. "The Fallen Angel" encourages critical thinking by stressing that error is inevitable, that blind dogma is dangerous and that much of what students learn in school is incorrect in "the American Experiment," he claims that having a government based on democracy and continuous argument is cause for patriotism. Yet, he cautions, we must remember that though "no shame need endure forever no accomplishment merits excessive pride." Finally, "The Word...