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...touch with us, his message may well be received first in a quiet rural setting 30 miles northwest of Boston. There, atop a hill overlooking a snow-covered apple orchard and the frozen remnants of a pumpkin patch, a dish-shaped antenna, 84 ft. across, faces skyward, attuned to the murmurings of the cosmos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LISTENING FOR ALIENS | 2/5/1996 | See Source »

THIS STORY READ MORE LIKE CONFIRMAtion of Noah's Deluge than Darwin's theory of evolution. ''Tectonic forces unleashed huge earthquakes that broke continental land masses apart, then slammed them back together. Mountains the size of the Himalayas shot skyward...'' Then you report that mud slides poured into the sea, entombing preternatural creatures that became fossilized. With all this evidence, it would be easier to prove Noah's flood than evolution. DEMBIE COPENHAVER Newville, Pennsylvania Via E-mail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 25, 1995 | 12/25/1995 | See Source »

...STARRY NIGHT IN 1610, IN THE city of Padua, Italy, Galileo Galilei pointed his newly handmade telescope skyward, stared into the eyepiece and gasped in excitement. Through the lenses of the world's first astronomical telescope, four white spots were clearly visible floating near a brightly shining planet. Galileo had discovered Jupiter's four major moons, the first (except for Earth's own moon) ever seen around a planet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BY JUPITER, IT'S GALILEO! | 12/11/1995 | See Source »

Breaking Through the Algae To human eyes, the world on the eve of the Cambrian explosion would have seemed an exceedingly hostile place. Tectonic forces unleashed huge earthquakes that broke continental land masses apart, then slammed them back together. Mountains the size of the Himalayas shot skyward, hurling avalanches of rock, sand and mud down their flanks. The climate was in turmoil. Great ice ages came and went as the chemistry of the atmosphere and oceans endured some of the most spectacular shifts in the planet's history. And in one way or another, says Knoll, these dramatic upheavals helped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Life Exploded | 12/4/1995 | See Source »

...England; and associate principal guest conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra. As flamboyant on the podium as his mentor Seiji Ozawa but far more probing and analytical, Nagano wields his baton with the alan of a lion tamer cracking a whip. His lank, dark hair flies, his arms soar skyward, and a broad smile crosses his face: the laid-back, almost diffident surfer dude is suddenly transformed into the happiest dervish in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: KENT NAGANO: FIRE ON THE PODIUM | 7/10/1995 | See Source »

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