Word: turneritis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some journalists endorsed NBC's decision. Charles Lewis, Washington bureau chief of the Associated Press, argues that Abbas' "enormous mystery" made the interview worth doing. Ed Turner, executive vice president of CNN, says, "We would have run it. There's no question that Abbas is a major news figure, for good...
...coal-black night in March, the kind astronomers like best. At Arizona's Kitt Peak National Observatory, Princeton Astrophysicist Edwin Turner pointed the 158-in. reflecting telescope first at one distant pinpoint of light in the sky, then at a neighboring one. A few hours later, studying the results of his night's labors, Turner could hardly believe his eyes. "It was a big surprise," he says. "But a big surprise is always a clue you might be on the track of something...
Something indeed. After analyzing the light from the distant sources, Turner and seven other scientists concluded that they had apparently found evidence of the most massive object ever detected. That object, they surmise in a report published last week in Nature, could be a huge cluster of galaxies or a black hole far larger than any ever anticipated. More startling, it might be a "cosmic string," a bizarre, hypothetical remnant of the chaotic birth of the universe...
...Turner confirmed, the two spectra recorded at Kitt Peak were virtually identical. This meant that if each were from a different quasar, the two objects would not only have identical chemical properties and temperatures but also would be the same distance (about 5 billion light-years, in this case) away--a highly unlikely coincidence. "If you get matching fingerprints," Turner says, "you could have images from the same quasar...
...years, is unveiling a song-and-dance act she has worked out with Husband Tom McCoy, 29. Showcased at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel before an enthusiastic Los Angeles audience, the $100,000, 40-minute production includes seven costume changes and features Rigby's good-natured takeoffs on Tina Turner, Cyndi Lauper, Patti LaBelle and Debby Boone. Rigby finds shaking a leg more enjoyable than doing flips. "With singing," she says, "there's more room to have fun." Sure, but you can still fall flat on your face...