Word: yusef
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rage? Upon arrest, police said, the boys joked and rapped and sang. Asked why he beat her head with a lead pipe, Yusef Salaam was quoted by investigators as saying "It was fun." The boys have not yet been taught to say they did it because of rage, pain and despair, because of the sins whites have visited upon them and their ancestors. But they will be taught. By trial time, they will be well versed in the language of liberal guilt and exoneration...
Indeed, his son Yusef spoke to the latter aspect, when in his introduction to his father's address at the Democratic National Convention he said that too many members of his generation have chosen to spell "relief D-R-U-G-S rather than...
...induced in the strings. These currents could in turn produce intense magnetic fields around the strings, and particles, like electrons, caught in the fields would glow. In fact, a radio- telescope image of the center of the Milky Way, taken last spring by Mark Morris of UCLA and Farhad Yusef-Zadeh of Columbia University, shows threads that some astronomers think could indeed be glowing strings...
Indeed, the appearance of the magnetic arc was so unlike anything ever before observed in the universe that for weeks its three discoverers refused to accept their own finding. "We were very frustrated," says Farhad Yusef-Zadeh, a graduate student at Columbia University and one of the trio. "The first thing we thought was to try to get rid of the structure, to fudge the data. But it wouldn't go away...
...across 21 miles of the desert of New Mexico. The VLA is one of a kind: the separate signals received by the 27 instruments can be melded into a single seamless picture, providing scientists with huge, highly detailed portraits of the heavens. Pointing the VLA toward the galactic center, Yusef-Zadeh and his Columbia colleague, Don Chance, along with Astronomer Mark Morris of UCLA, mapped out 200 light-years of the galaxy...