What Paradox?

For almost three years now astronomers have had to live with a paradox. In 1994 data from the Hubble Space Telescope indicated that the universe was younger than its oldest stars. Astronomers have floated all sorts of ideas to rectify the situation: some dredged up a cosmological fudge factor, once rejected by Einstein, that would make the universe a bit older; others proposed new ideas about how stars age in an attempt to make the oldest stars younger. Now two astronomers say they can resolve the conundrum. It seems everyone has been mismeasuring the size--and thus the age--of the universe.