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...Static crackled back. "Columbia, Houston. UHF com check," Hobaugh said, as Mission Control switched channels...
...troubling implication from a philosophical point of view: unlike Darwinism, I.D. suggests a static universe in which earth's many species have no hope of betterment...
...park bench, one white and one black, sit swapping stories. No premise could be simpler, no setting more static. But because the theater is ultimately a medium of language, of narrative, a skilled playwright can find in just such a conversation all the action an audience needs. The result can be poignant and elegiac, like David Storey's Home, or salty and burlesque, like David Mamet's Duck Variations, or full of rage and silences, like many of Beckett's dramas...
...image was so faint that scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., checked to make sure it was not the result of a blemish on the camera lens or static distorting the telemetry. But it was real, a tiny circle that represented a previously undiscovered moon only 35 miles in diameter, orbiting 37,500 miles above the murky atmosphere of the planet Uranus...
...rich country in northeast Borneo, has been buying millions of ounces of gold during the past month. He oversees a fortune estimated at $30 billion, and is said to be the world's richest man. Certainly he has the cash to play the gold market. TELEVISION Creating Static in the Skies...