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Even on a clear night, astronomers cannot see forever. Light from the stars is diffused and distorted by the earth's atmosphere. To the casual stargazer, that produces a beautiful twinkle, but to the astronomer it is a tragic blur. Star watchers have long dreamed of somehow getting above the atmosphere to have an unobstructed look at the universe...
...about expanding her line. Says DIFA's Flanders: "It's been notoriously frustrating for women to get the backing. Now investors are looking at women with very open eyes and in a very different way than they did before." The human cost of winning that new interest, however, is tragic...
Modern sociological investigations are at the forefront of our efforts to understand what is going on, and to suggest policy options in our attempts to do something about it. It is therefore nothing less than tragic that some of the nation's brightest students are being misled, at its foremost institution of learning, into thinking that they are engaged in studies with a view to understanding their social world, when all they are learning is an outmoded "Channel 2" sociology that has brought that version of the discipline to ruin and disgrace in its British homeland...
...being a mariner and operator, he was one of the best. At times I've been very, very irritated with Hazelwood, but I've also put myself in his shoes and said, "Jesus, the poor guy's just taking all that damned heat up there." It's been tragic for him. It's been a bitch...
...playing a tragic role, but a necessary one," said Stefan Finger, campaign director of East Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD), which is the main adversary of Modrow's Communist Party, now renamed the Party of Democratic Socialism. Although the SPD is favored to win East Germany's first free elections, its leaders praise Modrow. Said Finger: "We believe in this man's integrity...