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...advised the audience to strike a balance between the extremes of believing everything is going to be fine and that "airplanes are going to fall out of the sky...
...buses cruise past a field of beans--Bradley's farm--and pull into a lot beside the Mississippi. With the sun setting, the sky is etched with a calligraphy of pink clouds, their reflection a soft wash on the river surface. "Well, here it is," Bradley says with satisfaction. He describes boyhood rituals, times when he would "be still and listen to the wind in the cottonwood trees and watch the current carry what it had scoured from half a continent." He calls the river "a metaphor for democracy" and talks about the peace he finds here...
...other building concerns that have long remained neglected. First-year dormitories need better lighting. As every year passes the need for a true student center with space for group offices and meetings is ever more evident. And it certainly would be nice to see a 175-foot sky crane above our decrepit excuse for an athletic center...
...SKY DIVING...
Astronomers looking for black holes have long known that the deck is stacked against them. In order to find a heavenly body, sky gazers ordinarily take a straightforward approach, hoping simply to eyeball the object through a telescope. But black holes, which are formed by collapsed stars or compressed matter at the center of galaxies, are so dense that nothing--not even light--can escape their gravity. Last week, however, investigators at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., announced that they had at last seen direct evidence of a black hole in action...