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...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...
...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...
DIED. BOBBY RIGGS, 77, tennis star; in San Diego. In 1939 Wimbledon-winning Riggs was the greatest tennis player on the planet. But his enduring legacy is surely the antics of his later life--most notoriously the 1973 "Battle of the Sexes" against women's tennis star Billie Jean King. King cleaned the court with the 55-year-old Riggs, who raised sexist posturing to self-parody--and inadvertently fueled the nation's growing interest in women's tennis...
...first time, astronomers confirm the discovery of a planet circling a star similar to our own. The planet is 160 times more massive than Earth; because its orbit takes the planet so close to its fiery sun in the constellation Pegasus, scientists are convinced that it could not sustain life. Even so, the discovery bolsters theories that other worlds harboring life may indeed exist...