Word: space
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...book provides the necessary antidote to weekly journalism. It's fun to have space for 100,000 words," says Senior Writer Robert Hughes, who is writing about the colonization of Australia by convicts in the 18th century. Correspondent Neil MacNeil turned to history in a recent monograph, The President's Medal, 1789-1977. For others, contemporary events have provided subjects: Associate Editor David Tinnin's forthcoming I, Terrorist examines the motivations of terrorists; Correspondent James Willwerth's new Badge of Madness is about the breakdown of one New York policeman...
Confusion concerning the time limitation on the petition resulted in expiration of the request in December, so the residents must repeat their efforts to restrict Harvard's building space...
...residents' arguments in favor of the petition emphasized the "character and "charm" of the neighborhood. About 25 neighbors attended the hearing, most of them voicing support of the petition, citing such reasons as the importance of preserving open space in the mostly residential section of north Cambridge...
...proposed air route between Bangkok and Hong Kong that involved Vietnamese air space was speedily approved in Hanoi even though relations with Thailand had been frosty. Meanwhile, although Hanoi's friendship with Peking is equally cool, Vietnamese Party Secretary General Le Duan recently visited the Chinese capital and came home with $300 million in aid. Le Duan, China watchers believe, also asked Peking to curb Pol Pot's government...
...black holes" -the remnants of giant, collapsed stars -at their centers. Matter from the surrounding galaxy drawn by tremendous gravitational forces into these holes could be compressed and heated enough to produce huge amounts of energy. Perhaps the most bizarre idea is that quasars are "white holes," portals through space and time linking our universe and a mirror-image universe composed of antimatter. When antimatter from that other world comes in contact with the "normal" matter of our own, the two totally annihilate each other. That kind of reaction, involving a complete conversion of mass into energy, could explain...