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...former IOP Fellow Lynn Sweet, the head of the Chicago Sun-Times Washington bureau, cautioned that celebrity endorsements weren’t always entirely sincere...
...astronomers thought comets were loose collections of dust and vapor held together by gravity. Whipple argued that the core of a comet consists of ice, ammonia, methane and carbon dioxide, and that its gossamer tail consists of particles that break off from the mass as it approaches the Sun. Over seven decades of work at Harvard University and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Whipple also discovered that meteors do not come from far-flung stars, but the Earth's solar system. He was an inventor as well. Anticipating space flight, he invented in 1946 a thin outer skin of metal known...
CATCH THE SUN NASA tries a daring scheme to retrieve solar particles...
...offers up 50 lush versions of the oozing classic. Along with her opinion of "the best grilled cheese" (cheddar on sourdough), she explores a Dutch-inspired gouda with red onions on rye, right, four Italian cheeses on ciabatta, and a caprese with mozzarella offering a sweet contrast to tangy sun-dried tomatoes and lemon zest. There are even desserts like goat cheese and honey on cinnamon-raisin bread. --By Lisa McLaughlin
DIED. DANIEL PETRIE, 83, prolific television director who also made such memorable motion pictures as A Raisin in the Sun (1961), starring Sidney Poitier, and Resurrection (1980), with Ellen Burstyn; in Los Angeles. The Canadian native and former Broadway actor made his mark in the 1960s directing such gritty TV series as The Defenders and East Side/West Side and then began making TV films, including Sybil, starring Sally Field. He won a 1976 Emmy for a TV mini-series about the Roosevelts, Eleanor and Franklin, and another the next year for Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years...