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...space agency has also been forced to delay until 1988 a project to orbit Venus with a satellite that will scan its cloud-veiled surface with radar beams. In 1986, Halley's comet, perhaps a chunk of debris left over from the early solar system, will return to the earth's vicinity for the first time since 1910. So far the space agency has been unable to scratch up the money for the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to intercept this visitor from deep space with cameras and other scientific instruments. Says George Rathjens, former chief scientist...
Ever since Galileo unveiled his first crude optical glass to the elders of Venice in 1609, astronomers have been building bigger and better telescopes. But as they scan the heavens from windswept hilltops, trying to fathom the secrets of the cosmos, nature continually conspires against them...
...beauty is only scan deep, how can the buyer beware? The best arbiters of children's books are still, as I.B. Singer says, the children who can neither fake a laugh or suppress a snore. It is they who will be formed by the pages they hold in their hands and in their minds. It is they who will decide which books will be read over and over and which will lie neglected until the next garage sale...
...Reagan's TV expert Dailey cites studies showing that nearly a third of the commercial messages delivered over TV are misunderstood by viewers. "People aren't really intently listening," he says. "TV is a way to turn yourself off." Dailey recalls research showing that the electronic brain scan of a person watching TV is remarkably similar to that of the same person sleeping soundly...
...reflection offered by Woolf's nephew Quentin Bell in his biography of his aunt: "If the test of passion be blindness, then [Virginia's] affections were not very deeply engaged." Virginia sharpens that point in the play: "Life and a lover she thought. It does not scan." For Woolf, her work was her life. While she would drown herself as pitiably as Ophelia, she could not drown her vocation in Vita...