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...service paid to human frailty and divine mercy. Nearly four-fifths of the novel is spent on the trail, providing the author with the simplest means of moving his story and creating suspense. The main test of wills occurs hastily in the last 50 pages and contains a solar eclipse that frightens off hostile Indians just as they are about to kill the black robes of Ihonatiria. Parkman's history tells of a priest who knew enough astronomy to impress the natives with a prediction of an eclipse. Moore turns this event into a scene that belongs in the Movie...
...life on earth that they take the theory for granted, sort of like the law of gravity. On the other side are the creationists, who apply the language but not the rigor of science to defend a literal interpretation of Genesis. As the creationists see it, the universe and solar system were born only 10,000 years ago, humans trod the earth in the company of hulking dinosaurs, and evolution is a false idol. Although they have lost legal battles in Arkansas, Texas and most recently Louisiana to require their teachings in public school biology classes, the creationists continue their...
...Judge Taketsugu Taket ruled that there is no right of solar access in California. He wrote, "Although the court finds that the complaint, of the Shers are very real both in the aspect of emotional distress and the reduction of potential property value, the injuries...are not ones that are afforded protection...in a court...
FOOTNOTE: *Uranus lies on its side, its axis of rotation more or less perpendicular to those of the other eight planets. Its north pole now points at the sun and thus receives more solar radiation than other regions of the planet...
Harvard announces that it would receive a $1.2 million federal government grant aimed to make the University one of the nation's leading developers of futuristic materials, such as solar cells and metallic glasses...