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Venezuela is a more complicated case. It is one of the oldest democracies in Latin America. It is also, not coincidentally, one of the most prosperous nations in the region. While Peru is cursed with the deadliest of exports, cocaine, Venezuela is blessed with vast petroleum reserves...
NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer satellite -- COBE -- has found something astronomers have been seeking for nearly 30 years: an almost imperceptible pattern of warm and cool patches in the cosmic microwave background radiation, the oldest light in the cosmos. The radiation was created only 300,000 years after the Big Bang explosion that began the universe, a time when all of space was hot, dense and incandescently bright. The radiation is still around now, 15 billion years later, cooled far below zero and transformed from visible light to microwaves. Its discovery in the mid-1960s confirmed the Big Bang...
Consisting of Kowalczyk, drummer Chad Gracey, bass player Patrick Dalheimer and guitarist Chad Taylor, the Pennsylvania band Live is touring with Big Audio Dynamite, Public Image Limited and Blind Melon on MTV's 120 Minutes national tour. The band, whose oldest member is 21, has been playing together since they were all in junior high. Now they've got a hit album, Mental Jewelry, and a slot on MTV. And they're getting ready to tour Europe and then record again. Think about that when you put on your graduation robe and a funny hat and pick up your degree...
Perhaps the oldest "recreational" sport on campus, and definitely the largest, intramural rowing attracts a variety of undergraduate participants; male and female, experienced and inexperienced...
...every time I walk into an old-time ballpark. The day I first caught a glimpse of Wrigley Field on a summer trip I took around the country to visit major league baseball stadiums, I immediately dropped to my knees and began to pray in the direction of the oldest thing in the ballpark: Cubs announcer Harry Caray...