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Call it an unexpected bonus from the cold war. During top-secret monitoring of the dark side of the moon 25 years ago, U.S. scientists discovered what they feared might be clandestine Soviet nuclear tests in space. Spy satellites picked up massive bursts of gamma rays similar to those released during the explosion of atom bombs. But these bursters, as gamma-ray scientists began to call them, did not match any known pattern. They were brief, lasting from only a fraction of a second up to 100 seconds. Civilian experts were called in to study the data, and the Soviet...
...night mercifully hides the dusty smoke of artillery. Three 175-mm field guns are outlined against the full-moon sky with piles of shells beside them and peshmerga pulling the lanyards. The subsequent roar deafens the ears with the sound of a thousand church bells ringing. Then a moment of magic silence, and somewhere a night bird's lilting song brings out the stars. God knows...
...last guests left the open house, an orange moon rose above the seven side-by-side graves in East Lawn Cemetery next to the hospital. "Wherever they are," said one of the departing guests, "I hope we made them proud...
...geography could shed light on several geologic mysteries. Researchers have not yet agreed on the origin of the Pacific Ocean. Some have suggested it was formed when Siberia split off from North America; a few even postulated it was created by the moon calving off from the earth long ago. In the new scenario, the ocean would have been created when Antarctica and Australia migrated away from North America 570 million years...
...cummings wrote) could "ride a watersmooth-silver stallion and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat ." The unspoken text was this: the nation had recovered its immunity, its divine favor, or anyway its gift for doing things right. The victory was as satisfying as anything Americans have done together since landing on the moon...