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Scientists theorize that some stars die in a violent explosion known as a supernova, which creates a pulsar-a very dense core of neutrons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Physicists Locate Pulsar | 10/10/1984 | See Source »

Diasonics is another firm that started as a supernova, only to turn into a financial black hole. The Milpitas maker of medical diagnostic equipment attracted some of the San Francisco area's most experienced investors and last year took in $123 million in one of the largest public stock offerings ever. But that sum has dwindled as Diasonics has lost $103.7 million since the beginning of 1983. Troubles in its line of digital X-ray devices distracted management from other problems and sapped funds before the line was sold to another company. Now Diasonics has shaved its work force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sad Tales off Silicon Valley | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

Astronomers have identified fiery quasars and the wispy shadows of supernova explosions at the very edges of the known universe. Yet the core of our own galaxy, the Milky Way, has long been an elusive stranger. Thick clouds of interstellar dust and gas absorb most of the light from the galaxy's central bulge long before it reaches planet earth, a small and distant suburb 30,000 light-years away from the Milky Way's midsection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Case of the Cosmic Bends | 8/6/1984 | See Source »

...true scholars. Though too much of my undergraduate career was spent cutting classes (an activity about which I boasted, for reasons that now escape me). I did see enough lectures to know Harvard's oldest heritage is safe for a good many years to come. Stare around; the glorious supernova that was Walter Jackson Bate in our day, and hot ascendant luminary that in Stephen Jay Gould, to name just two. I didn't have the time to write a thesis (too busy solving world problems), but some of my best friends...And once, before I went to outback West...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Four More Years | 6/9/1982 | See Source »

Sophisticated Ladies. Gregory Hines is a dancing, singing, drum-flaying supernova in this stylish tribute to the dandy of the jazz kingdom, Duke Ellington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Best of 1981: Theater | 1/4/1982 | See Source »

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