7/27/2003:

Intermediate Word:  garrulous - (a) talkative  (b) taciturn  (c) suffocating  (d) grandiloquent
Difficult Word: - corniform - (a) horn-shaped  (b) disk-shaped  (c) shaped like a cornucopia  (d) rod-shaped

Judge Delays Work on New Telescopes in Hawaii - Space.com  A U.S. federal judge's order to prepare a new environmental assessment for the installation of up to six new telescopes atop Mauna Kea on the Big Island is expected to delay the $50 million NASA expansion project for up to a year. But the ruling is not expected to affect the agency's plans to move forward with the project, said Lisa Bail, an attorney for the University of Hawaii, whose Institute for Astronomy would manage the new telescopes.

EXCLUSIVE: Cause of X-43A Hyper-X Crash Identified - Space.com  SPACE.com has learned that the failure of the NASA X-43A hypersonic aircraft in June 2001 was the result of inaccuracies in computer and wind-tunnel tests that were based on insufficient design information about the vehicle itself.  On June 2, 2001, the X-43A "stack" was released from a B-52 carrier aircraft, bu tbooster fins broke off and the aircraft spun out of control.

First stars had no planets  - BBC  The first stars to form in the Universe had no planets. Only later generations of stars, that contained more metal, were able to have planetary companions, according to new research. To reach this conclusion, astronomers looked at 754 nearby stars like our Sun. Some of the surveyed stars had planets but most did not. The implication is that planets did not form around the metal-poor stars that formed when the Universe was very young. "Stars forming today are much more likely to have planets than early generations of stars," says astronomer Jeff Valenti.

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