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...mass and composition, they would use tailor-made nuclear explosions to pulverize a small asteroid or deflect a larger one. Given enough time, and under the proper circumstances, less drastic measures would be needed. Some schemes call for conventional explosives alone, or anchoring a rocket motor or a solar sail on an asteroid to alter its orbit enough to allow it to safely bypass Earth...
...universe does not usually conform to our time-honored ways of thinking--that to understand it, we need to think in new ways. Integral to modern cosmology are mind-bending 20th century concepts like Einstein's curved space, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle and the realization that exotic subatomic particles sail through our bodies by the trillions without laying a glove on us, and I see no reason to suppose that doors won't open onto even stranger notions in the century to come. So perhaps we can glimpse a few shafts of light, shining under doors as yet unopened, that...
After a full weekend of racing, Harvard was tied with Dartmouth for first place, but Dartmouth snatched the victory in a sail off late Sunday...
...taken more than twice as long as it took to build the original. One reason: today's shipbuilders don't keep the sweatshop hours common among the workers on the original Amistad. Another reason is that the first Amistad, like many boats of the era, was intended to sail for no more than 10 years before being scuttled for scrap. "Our new ship is built to last decades," says Snediker...
...peals 53 times--once for each African. The ship is to be christened not with champagne but with a mixture of waters drawn from Connecticut, Cuba and Sierra Leone, the home of the kidnapped Africans. The Amistad's first stop after it leaves Mystic in July will be Operation Sail 2000 in New York harbor on July 4. Once that coming-out party is done, it will tack off into coastal waters, sailing from ports in the U.S. and perhaps Cuba and Sierra Leone to carry the tale of the long-ago ship in whose memory it was built. After...