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...fairness, it must be acknowledged that cosmologists have had very little information to go on, at least until very recently. The distant galaxies that bear witness to the universe's origin, evolution and structure are excruciatingly faint, and it takes every bit of skill observers have to tease out their secrets. It hasn't been until the past decade, in fact, that astronomers have had powerful telescopes like the Hubble out in space and the Keck atop Hawaii's Mauna Kea, ultrafast supercomputers and super-sensitive electronic light detectors to give them the data they hunger for. In a very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNRAVELING UNIVERSE | 3/6/1995 | See Source »

...know what most of it is made of. They don't know in any detail how it began or how it will end. And, beyond the local cosmic neighborhood, they don't know much about what it looks like. Each of these questions is now under study; each bears directly on the others; and each could yield within the next few years to the intellectual and instrumental firepower now being brought to bear on it. Assuming, that is, that the universe cooperates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNRAVELING UNIVERSE | 3/6/1995 | See Source »

Addressing a near capacity crowd at the ARCO Forum, Heyzer described how nation states and markets ignore the condition that women bear an unequal share of poverty, illiteracy, and unemployment in developing countries. The first step in creating more awareness in these institutions, she said, is to define a "Women's Development Agenda for the 21st Century," which was the title of her speech...

Author: By Emilie L. Kao, | Title: Heyzer Speaks on Gender Justice | 3/4/1995 | See Source »

...Harvard player who will bear the brunt of Clarkson's offensive force is junior goaltender Tripp Tracy, who is sure to see a lot of rubber flying his way all night. Tracy, currently third in the ECAC with a 2.94 goals against average, must continue to be sharp for the Crimson to have any chance of knocking off the Golden Knights...

Author: By Jonathan Finer, | Title: Icemen Looking for Victories | 3/3/1995 | See Source »

...ignore it, make my escape from Gameland and blunder into a lurid district of the Metaverse where thousands of infomercials run day and night, each in its own window. I watch an ad for Chinese folk medicines made from rare-animal parts, genetically engineered and grown in vats. Grizzly-bear gallbladders are shown growing like bunches of grapes in an amber fluid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GREAT SIMOLEON CAPER | 3/1/1995 | See Source »

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