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...aircraft, seeking evidence for heretofore unrecognized warm regions of space. Ultraviolet and x-ray spacecraft, perched in orbit far above Earth's opaque atmosphere, map distant sources of potent radiation emitted by previously unknown exotic astronomical objects; these are not merely passive probes like pioneering satellites that marked the dawn of the Space Age, but whole observatories remotely operated by teams of scientists, much like major ground-based telescopes. And robot spaceprobes navigate through the system of known planets, telemetring to Earth visible and invisible impressions of these totally new worlds...
...radiation they emit. Radio and infrared techniques now enable us to "listen" to huge interstellar clouds slowly contracting to form stars. Thus, we are now learning a great deal about the embryonic stages of stars, a subject about which the oldest science--astronomy--had been experimentally ignorant until the dawn of the 1970s...
...constant pushing made sleep impossible, even when sleep was assisted by--or perhaps itself driven away--by several slugs from a bottle of cheap bourbon. A ring of light glowed in the east past the Charles, like the necklace of a dark lady, and that told him it was dawn or otherwise he might not have known because time, like history, had broken down for Bell--time became irrelevant to the text of events that private myth, the personal subtext of events, had replaced. Down the wet streets of Cambridge Bell walked, but he walked, careless of time...
...studies at Harvard and the University of Virginia Law School and settled down in the same old house, even though nobody gave him any business after that day in 1955 when he stood on the steps of the county court house and vowed that the Kanawha County schools would dawn well integrate; two years later his son Thomas Scott Bell was born and Ralph still slept with a piston under his blanket, the same one he would use to blow his brains out with, six months to the day after taking out a $250,000 insurance policy that would send...
...world, brought about, in large measure, by the failure of the political leadership of the great powers to face courageously the problems before us. Ahead lies a time when the authority of the state and of law will be challenged as it had not been since the dawn of the modern era, a time of fiscal and economic upheavals, and, possibly, of yet more mass slaughter on the scale perpetrate by Nazi Germany and Communist Cambodia...