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...after allegedly beating the pulp out of live-in boyfriend Darren Silver--and she didn't need a crowbar or an accomplice to do the job. According to Silver, the couple had just returned from an excursion to a video-poker arcade when Harding attacked, "hooking me like Mike Tyson." Silver attempted to flee on his motorcycle, only to run face first into a hubcap Harding had hurled, Frisbee-style, in his direction. Police on the scene reported that both Harding and Silver were intoxicated. No surprise there. Harding was released and has pleaded innocent to all charges. A judge...
When New York City's American Museum of Natural History announced a few years ago that it would be rebuilding its hallowed Hayden Planetarium from the ground up, lots of New Yorkers screamed to the heavens--and Neil de Grasse Tyson, the planetarium's recently appointed director, couldn't blame them. For more than 60 years, the Hayden had been bringing the stars to sky-deprived city dwellers, and its frumpy dome, slapped onto the museum's north side, had played host to generations of visitors. That included Tyson himself, whose career as an astrophysicist was first inspired by visits...
...scientist and educator, Tyson also knew that the existing planetarium, with its '30s design and technology, didn't come close to conveying the astonishing discoveries modern astronomy has made in the past few decades, from the Big Bang to black holes. Plummeting attendance in recent years simply confirmed that the Hayden was more compelling as memory than as fact. So Tyson set aside his nostalgia, sat down with architect James Polshek and exhibition designer Ralph Applebaum and got to work...
...within it. Then there's the space around the sphere. While the old Hayden had only a handful of faded exhibitions to get visitors into a cosmic mood, the new planetarium is overstuffed with information. "We don't really expect anyone to get it all in one visit," says Tyson...
...below its equator. As you begin your circumnavigation, the sphere becomes a reference for the relative sizes of objects in the universe. At one point, it represents the sun, while smaller spheres, from a few inches to a few feet across, portray the eight planets. (Not nine. Many astronomers, Tyson explains, now believe that Pluto is not a full-fledged planet.) A bit farther along, the sphere represents a molecule that dwarfs the footwide atom mounted to the railing...