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...change was gradual, the researchers admit, it took a remarkably short time for Sirius B to become a white dwarf. In fact, most astronomers think a red giant takes at least 100,000 years to reach that stage. If the change was violent and abrupt, they say, "no traces of catastrophic effects connected with such an event have been found." Those traces, according to widely accepted astrophysical theory, would include an expanding cloud of glowing gas still visible from the earth. Finally, the brilliance of Sirius B's explosion would certainly have lasted for weeks or months and provided...
Last week Manes' political saga came to an abrupt end. He was in the kitchen of his Tudor-style home in tony Jamaica Estates, talking on the telephone with his psychiatrist about committing himself to a mental hospital. Increasingly despondent, the 52-year-old politician suddenly began rummaging through a drawer, pulled out an eight-inch knife and plunged it into his heart. His wife Marlene found him slumping to the floor moments later and pulled the blade from his chest, but he was dead in minutes. There was no suicide note; explanations were unnecessary. Federal prosecutors seemed poised...
That is a large part of why the Administration has paid only lip service to the diplomatic option to date. But there are even greater disadvantages to the alternatives now available: pursuit of a military victory; abrupt abandonment of the contras, toward which Congress now seems inclined; and an open-ended civil war, which might wear down American will before it wears down the junta in Managua...
Court TV picked up the Cambridge trial live, bringing the case into the homes of millions of viewers. The network had originally planned to follow the sexual assault case against basketball star Kobe Bryant but an abrupt dismissal of the case brought Pring-Wilson into the national limelight...
...blow Kelley delivered was unprovoked and abrupt, Catalano said, since it came after the commotion had nearly died down...