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An X-Rated View of the Sky, Joshua
N. Winn
No, there's nothing risqué about x-ray astronomy. It deserves
its 'X' rating because of raw violence. A tour of the x-ray
sky is part scientific exploration, part uncensored spectacle
of the most energetic processes in the universe. |
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Barred Galaxies, Deborah M. Goldader
Prison inmates will soon outnumber college students in the United
States. Many of them renew themselves through intellectual experiences,
including astronomy. Yet they have been all but ignored by astronomy
educators. |
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Why
You Can't Have a Snowball Fight on Mars, Scott A. Sandford
Icy worlds such as Mars and outer-planet satellites might seem
like winter wonderlands, ideal sites for ski slopes, skating
rinks, and the crude pleasures of snowball fights. Alas, it
was not meant to be. |
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The Withering of Academic Freedom,
Marc L. Kutner
Being a faculty member is seldom the cushy job most people perceive
it as. University administrators are becoming ever more autocratic,
and professors, weakened by the tight academic job market and
outdated notions of autonomy, cannot effectively resist. |
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The
Cassini Controversy Continues, Ryder W. Miller
Cassini-Huygens is finally on its way to Saturn. So the whole
controversy over that plutonium is over, right? |
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Departments
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Editorial,
George S. Musser
With
the way community colleges treat their instructors, it's a wonder
any can teach at all. |
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Letters to the Editor |
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Echoes of the Past, Katherine Bracher
Two score years ago, astronomers had a dream of a national observatory
where they would not be judged by the color of their money but
by the content of their observing proposals. |
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Newswire,
Leo P. Connolly
Disabled students; master teachers; yet another web site. |
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Black Holes
to Blackboards, Jeffrey F. Lockwood
Space is not black. It is chartreuse, mauve, taupe, celadon,
cerulean - indeed, more colors than our eyes could ever perceive
directly. |
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Guest
Observer, Michael C. LoPresto
Visualizing
the solar system |
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Research
Review, Aaron Zent
Like
the hippies' planet in the Star Trek episode, "The Way to Eden,"
Mars is alluring but poisonous. |
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SkyChart and SkyTalk, Robert A. Garfinkle |
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Book Review, W. Dean Pesnell
Total Eclipses of the Sun by Jack Zirker. A Guide to the Sun
by Kenneth Phillips. Discovering the Secrets of the Sun by Rudolf
Kippenhahn. The Sun and the Moon by Gary Mechler, Melinda Hutson,
and Robert Marcialis. Beginner's Guide to the Sun by Peter Taylor
and Nancy Henrickson. |
