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All the same, baseball is braced for a disgrace of its own, more trauma on the order of the cocaine-related jail terms served by four former Kansas City teammates last year. Whether players or their suppliers are the direct targets of the new investigation, reports that a federal grand...
If the theory is correct, the next catastrophe will not occur for at least 13 million years. But the effect of the new concept on science and scientists has been much more immediate. One measure is the ferocity of debate it has generated in the past few months among eminent...
As the unpaid and unacknowledged editor of the celebrated Westminster Review, she enters into fierce arguments about political and religious subjects. Her article "Silly Novels by Lady Novelists" excoriates authors who mistake "vagueness for depth, bombast for eloquence, and affectation for originality." Even after it becomes known in 1859 that...
Music was Bach's great love, as music--especially Bach's--is Wolff's. But Bach composed and performed in the eighteenth century, while German-born Wolff, one of the pre-eminent Bach scholars in the country, researches, teaches, and perform in the twentieth.
One is that the U.S. could indeed develop a system that would be highly effective against both missile attack and countermeasures at something resembling a reasonable cost. That seems the least likely outcome. No one should say flatly that it is impossible, however. Anyone who does is speedily reminded by...