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...sharp, so startlingly three dimensional, that the mind wants to domesticate them, to bring them down to earth, to imagine them rising on the horizon or just beyond the wings of an airliner. These are no ordinary clouds, however. They stand not 30,000 ft. but almost 6 trillion miles high. They are illuminated not with ordinary earthly light but with searing ultraviolet radiation spewing from nuclear fires at the center of a handful of newly formed stars. And they're 7,000 light-years from Earth--more than 400 million times as far away...
...Republican-controlled Congress and the Democratic White House remained on a collision course over balancing the federal budget. The House and Senate sent President Clinton a bill adding $67 billion to the nation's $4.9 trillion debt ceiling, and will probably follow it with a measure extending government spending for a few weeks. However, Clinton is expected to veto the bills because of extraneous provisions he finds unacceptable. The likely result is a brief shutdown of nonessential government operations as the two sides find a compromise on the spending measure. One possible stopgap solution to the impasse over the debt...
Looking at the numbers, it's clear that the quarter-trillion-dollar tax cut has added an undue burden to an already arduous process. A proposed cut of $10 billion in student aid, only one twenty-fifth of the size of the middle class tax cut, appears to be only a drop in the bucket. But for thousands of students, that money is no such thing...
...concessions to wavering moderates, but the bill is largely intact, and it is remarkable the discipline Dole and Gingrich have maintained to advance these budget bills. It's something the Democrats never achieved." The Senate package revamps Medicare, Medicaid and various other programs, slowing federal spending by $1 trillion over seven years while providing some $245 billion in tax relief. What next? Vice President Al Gore told Larry King last night: "It will be vetoed in a flash." Despite such bravado, Tumulty notes, congressional Democrats have little faith in the President's commitment to stave off Republican demands when...
...SLEUTHS When Wolfgang Pauli first proposed the existence of the neutrino in 1930, he labeled his hypothetical particle "a frightful thing." The neutrino would neatly explain a tiny energy imbalance in certain nuclear reactions, but it would also be so ethereal that the average neutrino could zip through a trillion-mile-thick chunk of lead without hitting a single atom. Since the particles would presumably sail undetected through any measuring device, Pauli lamented, his clever idea could never be proved correct...