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...Harvard's excesses and indulgences can be attributed to that culture, so must its successes and triumphs. Harvard cannot exist apart from America, the Earth or the solar system. Those who flock through its gates to study, live, love and learn, must remember from whence they, and the University's greatness itself, came...
Club Paradise, which stars the normally hilarious Robin Williams, may be one of the summer's worsts. Clearly designed to make a few bucks off of those whose heads are affected by the solar rays and want to watch a fantasy of surf, sex and sun but as a B-Movie fantasy this film doesn't even work. Instead what we get is a slightly moralizing, very patronizing and almost racist story about life among the island resort...
...reaction has changed modern society. Over the span of 60 years, Bell Labs has generated 21,000 patents, one for each of the institution's working days and then some. More than mere inventions, the patents cover breakthroughs that have launched entire industries--developments such as the transistor, the solar cell and satellite TV. Meanwhile, scientists at Bell have raked in seven Nobel prizes and, in the process, inspired some legends...
...hopes of stimulating similar long-term thinking and national commitment, the Paine commission produced a glossy, colorfully illustrated 211-page report that implicitly dismisses the worries about America's current space failures as the product of small minds and faint hearts. Calling the solar system "our extended home," the document urges the U.S. to take logical, sequential steps toward colonizing space over the next 50 years. It assumes that NASA's proposed orbiting space station will be in place by 1994. Simultaneously, research would proceed on both an aerospace plane (President Reagan's so-called Orient Express), capable of taking...
...consequence of his general theory of relativity, light rays would be bent if they passed through the intense gravitational field of a massive object. That prediction was confirmed by British Astronomer Arthur Eddington in 1919, when he traveled to an island off West Africa to observe a total solar eclipse. From there he was able to measure precisely the location of a star that became visible in the suddenly darkened sky near the edge of the sun. Because light from the star was bent by solar gravity as it passed the sun, the apparent position of the star...