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...NASA that have also awed the astronomical world gathered in San Antonio. On Monday the space agency unvieled images from the Hubbell space craft showing galaxies never seen before. And on Tueday NASA released pictures showing the death throws of stars. "We've known for a long time how stellar objects burn up and that it's a fate our own sun will one day endure," says Lemonick. "But we've never had such incredible pictures showing the process in such detail." Said astronomer Howard Bond: "We've only got five billion years to get out of town...
...NASA'S GRAND SLAM The Hubble Space Telescope produced astonishing pictures of cosmic clouds, stellar nurseries and galactic collisions. The space shuttle executed a flawless linkup with the Russian space station Mir--twice. And a probe from the intrepid spacecraft Galileo became the first man-made object to plunge through the upper atmosphere of the planet Jupiter...
...trenches," he says, "from one bookstore to another." The book grew from a regional phenomenon into a national hit, reaching the paperback best-seller lists last year. That prompted Simon & Schuster to pay $4.2 million for The Christmas Box and its prequel, Timepiece, putting Evans into Marcia Clark's stellar company...
...Hill has only been getting better. The freshman's stellar performance Tuesday night (23 points, 2 rebounds, 4 assists, a perfect 7 for 7 from the line) salvaged hope from a disappointing start to Harvard's Ivy-League Season, as Harvard lost 61-70 to Dartmouth in Lavietes Pavilion...
Stauffer was the Ivy League's leading scorer in 1995, banging home 13 goals and assisting on nine others for 35 points. Her stellar season had already earned her Ivy League Player of the Year and First Team All-New-England honors...