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...Abkowitz, suffering through an off night from the one-meter board, made up for her less-than-stellar diving by swimming a second-place 30.09 in the 50-yard butterfly, 0.9 seconds better than her best previous time...
...fact, the earth and its star−the sun−are built in part from the ashes of dead stars, and human beings are litterally star children. People−and all other forms of life on earth−are collections of atoms forged in stellar furnaces. "All of chemistry and therefore all of life has been formed by stars," says Astrophysicist Patrick Thaddeus of NASA'S Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City. "With the exception of hydrogen, everything in our bodies has been produced in the thermonuclear reactions within stars...
...Mesopotamians believed the stars were gods who controlled their destiny. The Sumerians apparently perceived a regularity in the grouping of stars, and used their knowledge of stellar movements to help mark the passage of the seasons and fix the times for planting and harvesting. The Assyrians assumed that the stars determined man's fate, and regarded the movement of planets into various constellations as omens of good or evil...
...cloud of gas and dust that is giving birth to new stars. Some of the stars spawned by the nebula have been formed as recently as the time when the human species first stood upright; the newest offspring are only about 100,000 years old−mere infants by stellar standards...
Astronomers and scientists generally agree that the bright light in the sky that led the wise men to Jesus' birthplace was probably not a supernova, or exploding star. Such stellar catastrophes are far too spectacular to escape general notice, and with the exception of Matthew, none of the Apostles or King Herod mentions such a brilliant star near the time that Jesus was born. Nor does a comet seem likely to have been the Christmas star. True. Halley's comet, which was first seen in 240 B.C., reappeared in 12 B.C. But that was several years before...