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...through spectrographs, using exposures as long as six or seven hours to produce a usuable image on their film. Their painstaking labor produced tiny spectrograms that contained no color, only shadings of black and white, and were one-third of an inch long and a thousandth of an inch thick. Under the microscope, however, Sandage and Greenstein were barely able to discern strange patterns and spectral lines that had never before been observed in stellar spectra. Genuinely puzzled, Greenstein began to work out an elaborate hypothesis suggesting that the quasars were extremely dense and hot nearby objects, probably the remnants...
When a new Sears store opens up, curious crowds form thick lines in front. Lured by such innovations as price tags, one-stop shopping, money-back guarantees, credit buying, parking space and prompt deliveries, customers have turned Sears's air-conditioned Latin American bazaars into human hormigueros, or anthills. What shoppers primarily come for, however, are the goods, which are tailored to Latin American tastes. Clothing styles owe more to Europe than the U.S. The tool and paint departments, which are mainstays in the U.S., scarcely exist in Latin America, where cheap labor and a middle-class aversion...
...Quang Nam's mayor was something special too. Slight, gaunt of face behind a thick mustache, Ngo Tuong, 49, was a Popular Forces soldier who had come back home to serve as mayor only last month. Tuong liked to wear a black beret and a camouflage suit in making the rounds of his constituency, was both efficient and remarkably honest. Though he carried a pistol, he disdained a regular Marine guard detail, rightly judging that it would not sit well with his villagers. Anyway, there seemed little danger. Ap Quang Nam had been so thoroughly pacified after the marines...
When it rains, dog owners across the country are putting paws in rubber boots. If it snows, dogs emerge swaddled in thick, furry coats with even thicker sweaters. And for just padding around the house, some pooches sport ermine-tail coats that run up to $1,000. Dean White, executive director of the Institute for Human-Animal Relationship, calculates that U.S. dog fanciers spent no less than $450 million on dog accessories last year. And the figure is likely to mount higher, if the Canine Couture show held at Manhattan's Barbetta Restaurant last week is any indication...
...panoply and pomp. In this spare but sturdy tale, young (22) First-Novelist Cecelia Holland cuts away the familiar embroideries and tells the story of a wandering warrior-knight who rights for pay in the feudal feuds of llth century Europe, winds up under William the Conqueror in the thick of the slaughter at Hastings. Author Holland, who writes history as if her hero were watching it happen, en-capsules the medieval military mind: brash as plunder, elemental as blood...