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...Extra-Terrestrial invades the planet...
...joined by a host of new media--from cinema to radio and television and a wealth of computer-driven technologies--that have redefined the boundaries of art. And on the wings of these same technologies, the arts have come both to reach and to reflect more people on the planet than at any time in history...
...planet, as astronomers strongly suspect, its gaseous state and high gravity would make it an extremely inhospitable place. It also seems to be hurtling away into space at thousands of miles an hour, flung outward by the twin stars' combined gravity. That's the only reason it's visible at all: conventional planets are too close to their stars to be seen in the glare...
Astronomers have long been convinced that the universe must be filled with planets orbiting faraway suns. In the past couple of years, scientists have even detected such planets indirectly, by measuring the wobbles their gravity imposes on their host stars. But no one expected actually to photograph any of these distant worlds until well into the next century, when the next generation of superpowerful telescopes goes into space. Yet that's precisely what the Hubble telescope seems to have done. NASA announced last week that the space telescope has snapped what scientists believe is the first picture of a planet...
...literally walk on top of the past as we cast off our presents onto the giant heap. The Indian-Pakistani rivalry, which harkens back to the 1947 partition creating the two nations and to the historic Hindu-Muslim animosity, is now being grafted onto the setting of a nuclear planet. The weapons of war have changed even as the cultural animosity remains the same...