In a society dominated by celebrity, almost everything, even the news, has been reduced to entertainment, said Dana Gioia, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, during Stanford University's 2007 commencement ceremony.

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She came to dispense words of advice, encouragement and congratulations. But Oprah Winfrey's address at Stanford's 117th Commencement wouldn't have been complete without her giving away something more.

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The scientists have stopped holding their breath. Three weeks after the launch of the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), researchers from Stanford University, the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and elsewhere have shaken awake the scientific instruments aboard their $690 million satellite, 350 miles above Earth, for the first time.

And everything's working.

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The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope is in orbit 350 miles above Earth, lifted there by a rocket launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The blast-off was a milestone for scientists on the Stanford campus and at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, who have been working on the project for the last 15 years.

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