Word: sun
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...Duke University, is the first woman ever appointed to that 63-year-old Cabinet office. She is also a labor economist, a graduate of a college that catered largely to penurious families in Southern Appalachia and a low-key feminist determined to help women find their place in the sun. She comes to Commerce with a very definite aim: to "encourage business to perform well all tasks that improve human welfare...
...touching envoi: "Farewell, upstate harp of Tamil Vale, Frank, sweet bird of Saratoga . . ." New Yorker Editor William Shawn, however, is pleased. "If Frank Sullivan knew about it, he would be pleased too," says Shawn. Or as Angell concludes, and Sullivan would have: "Peace on each land beneath the sun/ Good friends, God bless us, every...
...starts to burn the hydrogen in its outer layers. This process causes the star gradually to turn red and swell to 100 times its previous size, pouring out prodigious amounts of energy. Betelgeuse, in the constellation Orion, is such a "red giant," visible to the naked eye. When the sun undergoes a similar metamorphosis, it will envelop Mercury and Venus and vaporize the earth. By that time, 5 billion years from now, man's descendants may have found a new home in an outer planet or beyond...
Conjunctions, or what seem to be close approaches of planets in the sky, are common occurrences; they take place at periodic intervals as the planets orbit the sun at differing angular velocities. In May of 7 B.C., Jupiter, which astrologers of the period considered both a royal star and a lucky one, first moved close in the sky to Saturn, which was believed to influence the destiny of the Jews. Even more significant, this conjunction occurred in the constellation Pisces, where celestial events traditionally foretold incidents of great importance to Israel. In September of that year, Jupiter again closed...
Died. Donald H. Menzel, 75, one of the world's leading authorities on the sun; in Boston. Menzel observed his first solar eclipse as a boy in Colorado, and spent the rest of his life studying the sun and its corona. A member of the Harvard faculty for nearly 40 years. Menzel watched 15 total solar eclipses, leading expeditions to Siberia, the Sahara and other remote outposts to get the best views. In 1938 he developed the U.S.'s first coronagraph, a telescopic device that allows scientists to study the sun's glowing halo without the help...