Word: seenes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This time, after not having seen my friend for 18 years, I barely recognized him. He stood in the doorway of his two-room apartment in a sooty housing project. He looked frail, his thin face tanned but deeply furrowed. But his blue-gray eyes still sparkled. On a small table in the corner stood a typewriter. "It is the fifth in 20 years," he said. The police had confiscated the others in attempts to trace samizdat (underground press) articles critical of the regime. The harassment had brought on an ulcer complicated by other stomach ailments. After multiple surgery...
...team of scientists attending last week's meeting of the International Astronomical Union in Baltimore may have unearthed an important clue to answering that question with the announcement that it has discovered the most distant galaxy yet seen by man. Designated 4C41.17, the galaxy is located some 15 billion light-years away (a single light-year is equal to approximately 6 trillion miles) -- about 90% of the distance from the earth to the visible limits of the universe...
...discovery is not simply a mileage record. The galaxy is being seen only a few billion years after the big-bang explosion, which suggests that at least some galaxies were being formed while the universe was still in its infancy. This could very well challenge the cold dark matter theory of galaxy formation, which holds that galaxies required billions of years to grow around very dense clumps of invisible particles. Yet 4C41.17, which appears to be mature, is probably no older than 1 billion to 2 billion years. Says Team Member Wil van Breugel of the University of California, Berkeley...
...measure of Reaganism's continued impact can be seen in Bush's evolution. A practical man who can read a balance sheet, Bush knew in 1980 that supply- side math could not add up for very long. He had the guts, as Reagan's rival for the nomination, to name it "voodoo economics." Today, like Dukakis, Bush knows there is a long list of public needs that cannot be met without some difficult choices, including a revenue increase (none dare call it taxes). But in the Balkanized G.O.P. of 1988, Bush had to get a large share of Reagan loyalists...
Astronomers discover and photograph a galaxy 15 billion light- years away, the most distant yet seen...