With the rise of the Hollywood film industry in the 1920s and thereafter, the world came to recognize that fame, like American automobiles or hot dogs, could also be manufactured and successfully marketed. In a democratic, officially classless culture,...

A star system or stellar system is a small number of stars which orbit each other,[1] bound by gravitational attraction. A large number of stars bound by gravitation is generally called a star cluster or galaxy, although, broadly speaking, they are also...

Text only supplied by one OCR 'IL-I Dallas is showing that spending a little cash in the offseason actually can pay dividends t was hardly a puzzle how a team with so many jagged pieces, pounded down with a mallet, couldn't fit...

STEVEN R. STRAHLER All through business school, I wanted to start a business. Going the Fortune 500 route never really appealed to me. After I got my degree in 1980, I started a company with my roommate, Kurt Hanson, doing market...

Scientists need help sorting through an unusual digital photo album: pictures of about 1 million galaxies.They are asking volunteers on the Internet to help classify the galaxies as either elliptical or spiral and note, where possible, in which direction they rotate. It would be the...

Astronomers have taken a baby step in trying to answer the cosmic question of where we come from.Planets and much on them, including humans, come from dust _ mostly from dying stars. But where did the dust that helped form those early stars come from?A...