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...concert: she says that the upcoming "Twenty Four Seven" tour will be her last. But don't fret: Turner and her bionic legs aren't retiring from music all together. Instead, she's focusing on "smaller-less is more" projects. Diva-in-training Christina Aguilera hopes to fill the vacuum, headlining her first amphitheater tour this summer...

Author: By Andrew P. Nikonchuk and Daniel A. Zweifach, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Access All Areas: The Summer Concert Preview | 5/19/2000 | See Source »

...think the year off is one of the best things that has ever happened to me." Levine says. "I feel like I view things differently. It's important not to let school suck you in like a vacuum and I feel like I have some perspective...

Author: By Michael L. Shenkman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Deferred Admits Tell Their Exotic Tales | 5/19/2000 | See Source »

...Hume not by baffling the grader or by fencing him but like this: "It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: BEATING THE SYSTEM | 5/17/2000 | See Source »

Those riveting Earth photos reframed everything. For the first time humanity saw itself from outside. The visible features from space were living blue ocean, living green-brown continents, dazzling polar ice and a busy atmosphere, all set like a delicate jewel in vast immensities of hard-vacuum space. Humanity's habitat looked tiny, fragile and rare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking The Long View | 4/26/2000 | See Source »

Forget it, though. You'll never go that fast. Albert Einstein said so. His special theory of relativity had at its heart an astonishing claim: the speed of light in a vacuum is always the same, for all observers. Shine a flashlight out into space and the light goes at 186,000 m.p.s. Jump into a spaceship and chase the beam at 185,000 m.p.s. and it recedes from you not at 1,000 m.p.s. but at 186,000 m.p.s. If you head in the opposite direction at 185,000 m.p.s., the light beam still moves away at...you guessed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will We Ever... Travel At The Speed Of Light? | 4/10/2000 | See Source »

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