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MOST EMBARASSING MOMENT: "It would have to be this year's game against Princeton. The night before we were at training table at the Hanover Inn, everyone was having vanilla ice cream sundies, you know the kind they scoop not the bricks you get in the dining hall but as...
When the helicopters set down at Fürstenfeldbruck, two Arabs hopped out and walked over to check out the 727. Two more jumped out and, although they had promised not to use Germans as hostages, ordered the helicopter crews to get out and stand by their choppers. The sharpshooters...
All of which is an accurate enough synopsis of Evening. The setting is Inishnamona, a peninsula that becomes an island when its residents blow up the causeway to the mainland in a short sighted gesture of independence that ends by cutting off the vital tourist trade.
No supernova has been seen in the earth's own Milky Way galaxy for 368 years. But astronomers constantly search for, and frequently observe similar stellar explosions in the universe's myriad other galaxies, or islands of stars. Since the 1930s, for example, astronomers at California's...
As the hero's life worsens, so do his eyes. Scorning pity-and grateful to get out of the house-Wilson enters the hos pital for an operation that checks his on coming blindness but leaves him only barely sighted, though able to draw. His first opus after the...