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...WASN'T NEARLY ENOUGH TO MAKE CROPS GROW or give anyone a Saint-Tropez tan, but for the first time ever, there was sunlight in the middle of the night. This seemingly divine miracle was actually the product of a thin, 65-ft. plastic mirror mounted on the unmanned Russian spacecraft Progress, which, from its 225-mile-high perch, reflected light on a sleeping Europe. The umbrella-like mirror, called Banner, did not quite turn night into day, but it did project a weak 2 1/2-mile-wide beam that danced across the Continent for six minutes. A French observer described...
These impacts blasted enough dust into the atmosphere to shroud the entire globe for months on end, blocking sunlight and causing temperatures to plummet. In the cold and dark, plants and animals perished. Compelling evidence of such cataclysms was revealed last summer: scientists confirmed that a giant crater, 176 km (110 miles) across, discovered under the northern tip of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula was the likely impact point of a huge object, probably a comet, believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs and other forms of life 65 million years...
Bush wandered around the South Lawn, looking, absorbing the beauty and the meaning. The Washington Monument shone with the eager sunlight. Farther on, the Jefferson Memorial glowed warmly...
...Virginia Spate (Rizzoli; $65). Paul Cezanne put down his fellow painter: "Monet is only an eye." Perhaps, but with that organ the great Impressionist analyzed the effects of sunlight on cathedrals and haystacks and water lilies -- and altered our perceptions forever. A scholarly appreciation reveals...
...danger posed by alien ideas. In their view, the Bolshevik Revolution exactly fits this category. The current fashion for wearing czarist-era uniforms and holding balls for descendants of the old nobility reflects an intense nostalgia for a Russia long gone, a monarchist age that appears as full of sunlight and promise for the Slavophiles as it was dark and despairing for the communists. The traditionalists take inspiration from prerevolutionary conservatives like Pyotr Stolypin, the assassinated Prime Minister of Czar Nicholas II, who dismissed his radical opponents with the curt dictum, "They need a great upheaval; we need a great...