Close Encounters
Most asteroids follow fairly regular paths in orbits between Mars and Jupiter. A small fraction, about one in a thousand, have evolved from their regular orbits by slow gravitational ...
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Great Scott! Back to the Future, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Oklahoma! and 12 Angry Men were among the 25 selections entered into the Library of Congress' National Film Registry this year. ...
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Here are some facts and trivia about the American Film Institute's new list of top-100 U.S. movies, with some comparisons to the institute's first such list in 1998:_ Out of the 43 newly eligible f...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press:
DEMOCRATS AND IRAN (The Wall Street Journal, New York)
Kudos to Hillary Clinton -- yes, you read that right -- for her
Senate vote this w...
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Background InfoThe son of a lawyer,
Dreyfuss
was born in
New York
on 29 October, 1947. By the age of nine he was living in
Los Angeles
, a stone's throw away from the Hollywood dream factory t...
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For campers at Isle Royale National Park, sighting a gray wolf is a rare and thrilling experience.
At least, until now.
Some wolves got a bit too familiar this summer, wandering into c...
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The part-Spanish, Mexican, and Puerto Rican singer is referring to her many close encounters with stardom that never panned out. Born in San Antonio, Villarreal settled in Nevada as a teenager. Tha...
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The years have been kind to "Citizen Kane," including the last decade. The 1941 Orson Welles classic _ the story of a wealthy young idealist transformed by scandal and vice into a regretful old rec...
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A European spacecraft was on course to zip past Mars on Sunday, a crucial maneuver in its meandering, 10-year voyage through the solar system to make the first soft landing on a comet.The Rosetta c...
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Close Encounters
Back to the Future, Close Encounters Enter National Archives
