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...March the Education Department refused to make a public comment telling schools how to handle the Solomon Amendment. Colleges were left unable to answer student questions on the matter. Eventually, and grudgingly. Education Department officials indicated in June in the Federal Register that the law was void but did not ask colleges to tell their students...
...chance of extraterrestrial discovery is, to be sure, infinitesimally small. As it hurtles through the interstellar void, Pioneer will not approach another star for 10,000 earth years. Even then, it will hardly be a close encounter: there will be a gulf of 3.8 light-years (some 23 trillion miles) between Pioneer and Barnard's star, a small, cool, red celestial object that does not seem to have life-supporting planets. Still, as scientists at NASA's Ames Research Center note, Pioneer should survive indefinitely in the vacuum of interstellar space. The machine may even outlast the solar...
...Lebanese were taking such talk seriously. As an aide to President Gemayel said, "We cannot dismiss the possibility that at some point the Syrians could declare Lebanon's existence null and void [as they] annex the areas of Lebanon that are under their control." What is certain is that the Syrians are already trying to influence Lebanese politics by exerting pressure on a variety of factions within the beleaguered country to oppose the agreement. Last week a meeting of those factions was held in the northern Lebanese town of Zgharta...
...title was Passion Play. The music of the Dies Irae boomingly punctuates some scenes, and the drama has a neoreligious subtext. James and Eleanor proclaim themselves atheists, but they are wistfully haunted by the death of God. While ranting about his right to "a flash of happiness before the void," James curses Christianity and Jesus Christ for depaganizing mankind: "The Christians took over the language of sexual emotion for their own purposes -passion, love, adoration, ecstasy . . . those words are now more meaningless than the so-called dirty words...
...hopefully will remain committed to research in eastern New England most likely will do so as private individuals or in the guise of not for profit corporations, lacking the resources and supposed stature of the academy. Other institutions, and perhaps even private sector "scavengers, will attempt to fill the void but in the meantime sites will be ignored or destroyed. The field of contract archaeology, having lost two of its anchors in the region is suffering boom and bust phases just like cycles in the societies it studies. It appears that Harvard like Brown is not "committed" to studying...