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...momentous sights revealed by the Hubble can stir anybody's imagination. These are rare glimpses of the outer boundaries of physical reality, and of the fiery cataclysms in which nature perpetually regenerates itself. Even astronomers have trouble keeping their professional cool when pictures like the new one--showing a section of the Eagle Nebula, a knot of interstellar gas and dust in the constellation Serpens--come beaming in from space. "When I saw it, I was just blown away," says NASA's Ed Weiler, the Hubble's chief scientist. The image has such visual impact, in fact, that some researchers...
...revival could be in the making. The very hardships and perceived injustices of the American workplace have begun to stir a new militancy among workers. And that has helped produce signs of a comeback. "In 2 1/2 years I haven't seen as much raw anger as I see in the workplace today," U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich told a Time conference on the economy two weeks ago. "One thing I've heard repeatedly around the country from unorganized workers is the following: 'I never thought about joining a union, but for the first time I'm now thinking...
...exposure? Area radio stations such as WCRB have begun to cater to the pop classical market, even experimenting with playing only movements of pieces rather than complete versions one almost never hears a contemporary work, perhaps because of an unfounded assumption that new works can't possibly stir up the same pleasures as old ones...
...Horse Whisperer, a romantic yarn in which a Montana cowboy with a mystical gift for communicating with horses has a torrid affair with a British-born magazine editor from New York, caused a stir in publishing and Hollywood circles as soon as the manuscript began circulating last fall. Robert Redford and Disney ponied up $3 million for movie rights; Dell Publishing won North American book rights for $3.15 million; and foreign rights topped $2 million. And that was before Evans had even finished writing the book...
According to Nathaniel A. Malka '98, a veteran council member, the high number of new members is likely to stir things up on the council...