Word: preciousness
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Richard Ellis paces impatiently back and forth across a small room lined with computer terminals, trying to contain his mounting frustration. The British-born astronomer, now at Caltech, has been granted a single precious night to use one of the twin Keck telescopes, among the most powerful in the world. Last night he and his observing partner, a graduate student named Dan Stark, flew 3,000 miles, from Southern California to Hawaii, where the Kecks are located. And during most of the afternoon and early evening today, they've made their final plans for the "run," as astronomers call...
...summit and actually runs the mammoth instrument has issued the command that tells it to focus. Time and again, the focusing routine has responded to his commands by crashing. For half an hour, engineers have been trying to figure out what is going on--while the first of the precious celestial objects on Ellis and Stark's observing schedule sinks inexorably toward the horizon. "This is pretty profound," says Ellis, bitterly. "If you can't focus the telescope, you're stuffed...
...often that one is confronted with mortality in such stark terms. I recently lost my father and then became a grandfather within a month of his passing. Time is so fleeting and so precious. I pray Kinsley has a speedy recovery. Joseph Bichler Grand Rapids, Michigan...
...Richard Evans The CEO of Montreal-based Alcan, the world's No. 2 aluminum producer, talks with TIME about how he hopes to position aluminum to become a "precious" commodity again...
...would welcome the old Kinsley back. Bill Kistulinec Warren, New Jersey, U.S. It is not often that one is confronted with mortality in such stark terms. I recently lost my father and then became a grandfather within a month of his passing. Time is so fleeting and so precious. I pray Kinsley has a speedy recovery. Joseph Bichler Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S. Kinsley's essay is a masterpiece of good writing, humor and the human side of medicine. It's rare to find someone who can express a patient's feelings without resorting to melodrama and at the same time...