Word: younger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dole's age a liability? At 71, he looks at least 10 years younger and follows a schedule that would exhaust someone half his age. In a national TIME/CNN poll last week of 426 registered Republicans, 82% of those surveyed said they don't think Dole is too old to run for President next year. And if Dole remains in good health, his age might work in his favor as an antidote to the occasional adolescent quality of Clinton. In Dole, says his friend Senator Alan Simpson of Wyoming, "the American people will see what they are thirsting...
...Just a month before these results appeared in the journal Nature, two other sets of astronomers came out with their own young-universe observations. And while a handful of studies have emerged over the past few years arguing instead for an older cosmos, many more have converged on a younger age. The Freedman team's observations are considered by far the most definitive because they are based on the Hubble's extraordinarily clear vision...
...work just down the hall from Sandage at the Carnegie's center in Pasadena, California. Freedman and a group of colleagues have lately used the Hubble Space Telescope to peg the age at somewhere between 8 billion and 12 billion years-which would make the cosmos 2 billion years younger than some of the stars it contains. "Our opponents," says Sandage bitterly, "are so wonderfully kind. They say we don't have anything to stand...
...cosmos. When they say the universe is between 8 billion and 12 billion years old, their vagueness reflects uncertainty about how much matter the cosmos contains. If there's a lot, as inflation suggests, its gravity would be slowing down the universe's expansion, making the universe younger than it looks. If, on the other hand, there is relatively little matter, the slowing has been minimal, and 12 billion is more like...
...reason has to be that unlike younger appropriators, Kitaj is in no sense a conceptual artist. He didn't and still doesn't care about teaching us what theoretical limits can be assigned to art. But he does care passionately about the life and health of painting, as distinct from the mere evocation of image haze; and as a draftsman, colorist and all-around creator of plastic sensation, he has no rivals in the American generation behind his. After so much photo-based figure painting in which the actual scrutiny of the living body, in all its resistant complexity, played...