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... age based on new HST images of very faint white dwarf stars in Messier 4 (M4), a cluster of stars in the constellation Scorpius. The researchers had closely examined ... had provided the first deep exposures of these dim stars, which the astronomers discovered were M4's oldest white dwarf stars, at around 12 to 13 billion years old. Earlier Hubble ... emergence from the Big Bang. Thus, the researchers had discovered that the age of these M4 white dwarfs supported the previous estimates that the universe's age is 13 to 14 ...

Yehezkel Dror is Professor of Political Science and Public Administration, Emeritus, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Since February 2002 he has served as Founding President of the Jewish ... : ''Public Policymaking Reexamined; Crazy States: A Counterconventional Security Problem; A Grand-Strategy for Israel (''in Hebrew''); and, most recently, The Capacity to Govern: A Report to the Club of Rome; ''and ''Epistle to an Israeli Jewish-Zionist Leader ''(in Hebrew). He is a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science and of the ...

... . So, it is thus no surprise that the earliest calendars were lunar. Very early, in 5000 BCE, the Egyptians developed a calendar with a year that was regulated by the moon and ... established civilizations along the banks of major rivers. Sometime between 3200 and 2800 BCE the calendar was developed in Mesopotamia, and then copied by the Greeks. Their year was divided into ... various schemes were invented to compensate for this discrepancy. Around 2000 BCE the Babylonian's calendar added an extra month every four years, while others attempted to correct the discrepancy by ...

... . Post, 4/2/64; M&R, 4/6/64, 10)'' According to Hebrew Univ. sources, Dr. Menahem Steinberg of Hebrew Univ. in Jerusalem had developed new oxidizer for use in solid-fuel ...

... they were quite skeptical of its value in collision avoidance. ''(W Post, 11/9/67, M4)'' President Johnson signed H.R. 12474, FY 1968 NASA appropriations bill, designated P.L. 90 ...

... Dakota. ''(FAA Release 63-102)'' RCA Board Chairman David Sarnoff, addressing American Friends of the Hebrew University in New York, predicted vast scientific and technological developments in the years ahead that ...

... for scientists and engineers was not adversely affecting other areas: "At the beginning of this calendar year, approximately 74,000 scientists and engineers were employed in the NASA program-about 12 ... that the number employed on NASA work increased by about 30,000 during the last calendar year, rather than 20,000 as had been anticipated. As a consequence, our requirement for ...

... was more than 600. He continued: “We anticipate publication of approximately 700 Tech Briefs during calendar year 1966. . . . we estimate the average Tech Brief is seen by more than 10,000 ... the fact that approximately 1,500 persons visited our Field Center Technology Utilization Offices during calendar 1965. . . . Two additional Regional Dissemination Programs have been started in the last year, one at ...

... people called event most interesting since Columbus discovered America. Israel's state radio broadcast in Hebrew from Cape Kennedy while Israelis stood around TV sets and portable radios in streets. U ...

... religion which itself reaches out for undiscovered truth," Rabbi Sheldon H. Blank, professor at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, said in Williamsburg, Va. If space exploration discovers rational ...

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