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Under Whipple's direction, astrophysics at the observatories expanded at an unprecedented rate. Following the world's first human-made satellite launch in 1957--the Soviet Union's Sputnik--the center also received an infusion of government and private funds when previously complacent America plunged into space technology...
National attention may be focused on astrophysics later this year, Professor of Astronomy John P. Huchra says, after the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) launches its Space Telescope (ST) this December...
Under the proposal, citizens or developers wanting to open a business in a residentially zoned or open space area would be forced to request that the council rewrite the zoning ordinance or change zoning lines, said CCLN co-chair Daniel E. Geer...
...waters could be treacherous. The channel space on cable systems is limited, and in most areas CNBC would have to supplant another service to win a spot on the dial. (FNN officials say their channel has been dropped by only a few systems to make room for CNBC.) In addition, the channel's programming, aimed at both hard-core market watchers and ordinary consumers, could be an uneasy mix. Then too there is Ted Turner to deal with. The CNN founder has already fired one loud volley at the competition, denouncing NBC executives as "bozos" and claiming that they started...
Congdon's Tales of the Lost Formicans takes a weepy topic that might easily have been a TV movie of the week and inverts it into a witty, goofy, almost anthropological look at humankind as viewed by aliens from outer space. The patriarch of a suburban blue-collar family is dying of Alzheimer's disease, while his daughter acts out anger over her divorce through petty crimes of feminist rage and his grandson runs away and ends up sleeping in shopping malls. The extraterrestrials are staging a sort of slide show to explain how human art, society and psychology work...