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...while the curriculum has remained relatively static in most classes, some professors now say they are recognizing the growing impact of new fields on the subjects they teach--and adapting the department to meet those changes...
...uncounted Cubans swept into the Atlantic during a storm, the journey is eternal. At least 60, including Elian's mother, have paid the price this year. It's not uncommon in Miami for telephones to ring in Cuban-American households with nervous relatives asking across a line crackling with static, "Have you seen our son? He left last week. Have you heard anything about him?" Often...
...willing to surrender themselves to Coupland's inventively of-the-minute language ("You two are the most drag-and-click people I've ever met") and his ability to see beauty in the discards of our consumer and pop culture, there's plenty here to allow a pattern of static to resolve itself into the face of love...
...physics at the end of the 20th century. The universe is full of matter, and matter warps space-time so that bodies fall together. Einstein found that his equations didn't have a solution that described a universe that was unchanging in time. Rather than give up a static and everlasting universe, which he and most other people believed in at that time, he fudged the equations by adding a term called the cosmological constant, which warped space-time the other way so that bodies move apart. The repulsive effect of the cosmological constant would balance the attractive effect...
General relativity completely changed the discussion of the origin and fate of the universe. A static universe could have existed forever or could have been created in its present form at some time in the past. On the other hand, if galaxies are moving apart today, they must have been closer together in the past. About 15 billion years ago, they would all have been on top of one another and their density would have been infinite. According to the general theory, this Big Bang was the beginning of the universe and of time itself. So maybe Einstein deserves...