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...that rings our galaxy, searching for large, dim objects like burned-out stars. Others are positioning electronic detectors in underground tunnels, hoping to entrap phantom particles that may be so prevalent that they drench the universe like invisible drops of rain. "Someday soon," predicts University of Chicago astrophysicist David Schramm, "one of these groups is going to strike gold -- Swedish gold," the kind that bears the likeness of Alfred Bernhard Nobel...
...understanding cosmology, the study of the entire universe. Instead of focusing on the nuts and bolts -- exotic particles, black-body radiation and the like -- Overbye draws intimate portraits of such people as Allan Sandage, once a "lean, Jimmy Stewartish" youngster and now the grand old man of cosmology; David Schramm, a Porsche-driving physicist and ex-wrestler; and Yakov Zeldovich, a sort of "Zorba the Cosmologist," who dazzled colleagues with his intuitive genius and women with his charm. By describing the quirky personalities and brilliant minds of these and other scientists, Overbye reveals cosmology to be a human and passionate...
...most daring development, as usual, is coming from the National Football League. Tex Schramm, the exiled general manager of the Dallas Cowboys, has been forming an international spring league that will announce its franchises any day now. "And they'll be kicking off next April," Schramm says...
Dallas Cowboy president Tex Schramm is no longer the Cowboy president. He has been named to head the experimental International Football League (IFL), which will field teams from both the United States and Europe. Can you imagine this matchup: Jacksonville vs. Rome? It's very likely...
...Schramm, who says Reed is unassuming about his unusual educational background, concludes, "They must breed them well up in the goat farm...