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This week's eclipse touched almost no land at all. Starting in the open sea at sunrise, it darkened the tiny specks of the Phoenix Islands shortly after 8 a. m., then the shadow rolled on across the sea, stabbing into Peru just before it ended at sundown. In...
Another factor affecting totality duration is that the shadow travels slowest at noon, fastest near the beginning and end of the eclipse day. Earth rotates eastward at about 1,040 m.p.h. at the Equator. The moon's eastward orbit carries the lunar shadow in the same direction at just...
Perhaps, as the friend who is reading the sports page in his old green armchair complains, these thoughts tend to the sentimental and the florid, but how else would one think of Spring? Would one peek out the window, sec leaves waving on trees, lawnmowers on the grass, and merely...
Old-fashioned but par for its type. Without Warning is not recommendable to those who are made uncomfortable by exploding hand grenades, falling crates, sudden darkness.
Halted after 11 innings of seesaw baseball because of darkness, the Crimson nine was forced to be content with a 9 to 9 tie in its games Saturday with St. John's at Soldiers Field.