Word: planetful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Well, forget that when China, not the Soviet Union, is the other big boy on the planet. The U.S. has always had trouble figuring out what cubbyhole to stick the world's most populous communist nation into: a geostrategic card to play? Someone we can do business with? The next evil empire? Now, by one of those sudden confluences of the political stars, the off-and-on debate over how to handle China is at a high boil just as Clinton sets forth on the first presidential visit to the People's Republic since Beijing's tanks mowed down...
Someday a team of men and women might board a spaceship and fly the 15 light-years to a small, low-mass star called Gliese 876. In its orbit they'll find a cold planet -- as yet unnamed -- of hydrogen and helium gases so enormous it's twice the mass of Jupiter. Newly discovered by San Francisco State researchers at the Lick Observatory in California, and further researched at the Keck I telescope in Hawaii, it's also the closest planet to our solar system ever found. There isn't another until you look 35 light-years -- 5.9 trillion miles...
...three glasses of port, after which he got up and gave the after-dinner speech. The 6-ft. 4-in. Senator swayed above me as if in a high wind and delivered a swoopingly post-Modernist oration that sounded like James Joyce addressing a Rotary luncheon on the planet Mars. His extraterrestrial gibberish nonetheless communicated to the diners an elegant music that left them well pleased and warmly mystified. Do not attempt this feat yourself. Moynihan is a trained professional...
...encouraged the graduates to "cast a giant shadow on our planet" through their work in the laboratory...
...becoming a member of the nuclear club, India has through its own actions put itself under obligation to limit the spread of nuclear weapons. It can now lead from a position of strength inside the club and persuade other members to save the planet from a nuclear holocaust. India can initiate the disarmament process by destroying some of its nuclear arsenal in the presence of other members of the club. This could galvanize world public opinion for total elimination of atomic weapons. SUDHANGSHU B. KARMAKAR Piscataway...