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...than astronomers had believed. "Everything found so far poses challenging questions for planetary formation theory," says astronomer Robert Stefanik, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. That was underscored last week when, after weeks of government shutdown, results were released from a NASA experiment much closer to home. The probe's plunge from the Galileo spacecraft into Jupiter's atmosphere showed that the planet has higher winds, less lightning, less water, helium and neon, and--at the point of impact at least--fewer clouds than the experts had been expecting...
...that as a consequence we are partners in a relationship with mystery. Like all relationships, this one can be ignored or neglected; it is also possible to deny that it exists altogether. But once acknowledged, this relationship requires things of us. Because we are human, it requires that we probe to the limits of our comprehension, and then push those limits outward with all our strength and diligence, in continuing to seek understanding of the mysteries of the universe. At this point the education of the intellect and the education of the spirit are virtually indistinguishable. And it requires also...
...easy. The newly discovered planets are much bigger than Earth, yet it is almost impossible to learn very much about them. The stars they orbit--70 Virginis in the constellation Virgo and 47 Ursae Majoris in the Great Bear--are each about 35 light-years away. The speediest space probe would take millions of years to reach them; even a radio signal, the fastest known thing in the universe, would need 35 years to get there, and it would take another 35 for any aliens, should they exist, to answer. The planets are so dim that they cannot be detected...
Harvard Detective Richard Mederos led the investigation into the extortion and threat charges. Rooney said the probe took several months because the suspect maintained "numerous aliases, numerous addresses and a criminal background of subverting police...
...Senators questioned former White House attorney Neil Eggleston and top Clinton aide Bruce Lindsey about Eggleston's attempt to share with Lindsey confidential documents concerning the Whitewater investigation. Those materials detailed a Small Business Administration criminal investigation of Clinton antagonist David Hale, an Arkansas judge; impeding the probe in any way would have been illegal. Investigators reviewed Eggleston's phone records, which indicate he left a message for Lindsey offering to brief him on the SBA papers. Lindsey was handling Whitewater press inquiries for the White House. But while Eggleston maintained that doing so would not have been improper...