Word: skyward
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After 73 years as Harvard’s eye on the heavens, the telescope at the Oak Ridge Observatory in Harvard, Mass., has reared its head skyward for the final time...
Prior to entering the white-dwarf stage, however, an aging star cools and balloons into a red giant. And that, the Ruhr researchers speculate, is probably what Sirius B was when the Babylonians--and then the Greeks, Romans and Franks--gazed skyward. To the unaided eyes of the ancients, the two closely spaced stars looked like a single pinpoint, with a decided reddish tint imparted by the dominating giant. The combined light of the binary pair would certainly have been brighter than it is today, and indeed Babylonian cuneiforms tell of Sirius' being visible in the daytime...
...pulpit these days is an office at Newark Airport's North Terminal. On one side of the room, his windows overlook an arena-size lobby where thousands of passengers wait, eat, sleep and often grumble. Windows on the opposite wall face the runways, where People's jets streak skyward toward Los Angeles, London and 47 other destinations. Burr's office is bus-station Spartan, like his airline. In the place where a conventional executive's couch would sit, he has a row of three first-class seats from...
This cool spring afternoon, the salvation site is suburban. One hundred yards from the Merritt Parkway, 1˝ rush hours from Manhattan, the frame of a born-again Babcock barn climbs skyward in Fairfield, Conn. After eight years in their 200-year-old farmhouse, Advertising Executive Rick Baker and his wife Cathy called on Babcock to erect a colonial barn addition, which will hold a new living room and a cluster of bedrooms. They wanted more space, but they also wanted to respect the region's history...
...this time, as the men throw their weight against the capstan arm, the rope tightens. Sweat and pine sap scent the air. Slowly, majestically, the triangle of oak swings skyward, hesitates, then settles gracefully on its mount 23 ft. above...