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While it is still impossible to determine which, if either, is correct, Hartman says that recent data shows that young stars spin slowly. Moreover, this suggests that the disk theory is incorrect, as it says that stars should be rapidly rotating when formed...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: Astronomer Advances Novel Theory On Star Formation | 11/8/1984 | See Source »

...second postulates that a large rapidly spinning disk of material forms first. Most of the material in this disk slowly spirals in, forming the star, while the remaining gas can be used to form planets...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: Astronomer Advances Novel Theory On Star Formation | 11/8/1984 | See Source »

...original white mass"). Even his symbolism leaves its traces. One cannot see the purple underlights in ploughed furrows against the sunset without thinking of the strange, dull mauve luminescence that persvades the earth in The Sower, helping suggest that this dark creature fecundating the soil under the citron disk of the declining sun is some kind of local deity, an agrestic harvest god. One apple tree will evoke the Japanese roots of Van Gogh's spike line; another will suggest how Piet Mondrian's apple trees (and with them, his early sense of grids and twinkling interstices) relate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Visionary, Not the Madman | 10/22/1984 | See Source »

...steady flow of PC repairs has slowed down in the last week. Galvin said, but first-year MBA candidate Maury A. Peiperl said he and about 40 other students have computers that fail to read the disk right after it is put in the drive...

Author: By Charles C. Matthews, | Title: B-School Computers Sent Back For Repairs | 10/4/1984 | See Source »

Although the programming is being done by Simon and Schuster, the contents of the disk and the graphics were done over the summer by members of the Lampoon staff whom the publishing company paid "enough for us to dress well for the rest of the year," said O'Brien, who is heading the project...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lampoon In Software Business With Electronic Entertainment | 10/2/1984 | See Source »

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