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...precise shape and behavior of the comet will give scientists insights into an array of physics problems, particularly some of the interactions between the sun and the earth. The release is part of a study of the magnetosphere, the powerful magnetic bubble that surrounds the earth; of the solar wind, the stream of supersonic particles that blows from the sun out to the planets; and of the bow-shock region, which lies between them. Aware of the comet's seasonal significance, NASA, one of the mission's main participants, has only too happily dubbed the performance the "Christmas...
Swinging within about 55 million miles of the sun every 76 years, Halley's comet has been an object of awe since what may have been the first reported sighting, by Chinese astronomers in 240 B.C. But when this cosmic snowball of ice and dust-with a nucleus between 3 and 6 miles across and a tail millions of miles long-streaks across the sky in 1986, it will be greeted for the first time by five spacecraft. In the vanguard of an international effort to study the comet, the Soviet Union recently launched two 4.5-ton unmanned space...
Actress Jane Seymour has made a career out of portraying sexy, scheming ladies. Seymour, 33, played the femme fatale in both the TV mini-series East of Eden and the small-screen version of The Sun Also Rises. In her new film, Head Office, she is again true to form-this time in the boardroom. "I play a lady executive sleeping her way to the top," Seymour reports. "In many ways she is the most honest of the characters." Still, the star was bothered about her new role. "Would a thinking woman, a feminist do this?" she asked herself, then...
...Clouds of dust and smoke block sun's rays, then spread over vast areas of the globe, causing ground temperatures to fall. Much of the soot in lower troposphere is eventually washed out by rain, but clouds higher up continue to block sun for weeks or months. The particles that reach stratosphere could remain for a year or more...
...smallest of small worlds, managed to govern India, one of the hugest and most heterogeneous of countries. But Scott's book is set about two decades later than Forster's, in the final five years of British rule. By the time Jewel opens in 1942, the sun has not set on the Empire, but the clouds have begun to gather. Scott's protagonists are caught between two worlds, one dying, the other struggling to be born. In the brooding moments before the storm, the British must endure the ache of quitting a place that had come...