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...whole city of Boston, does not believe in dinosaurs. “The Bible never says anything about dinosaurs,” Everett famously told Sports Illustrated. “You can’t say there were dinosaurs when you never saw them. Someone actually saw Adam and Eve. No one ever saw a Tyrannosaurus rex.” Everett was run out of New York in 1997 when he was charged with child abuse, and last year his temper flared up again during an interleague game against the Mets, when he earned a 10-game suspension for head...
...With reporting by John F. Dickerson, Michael Duffy and Adam Zagorin/Washington
...matter or a little--an effect that should have shown up as distant supernovas, looking brighter than you would expect compared with closer ones. But, in fact, they were dimmer--as if the expansion was speeding up. "I kept running the numbers through the computer," recalls Adam Riess, a Space Telescope Science Institute astronomer analyzing the data from Schmidt's group, "and the answers made no sense. I was sure there was a bug in the program." Perlmutter's group, meanwhile, spent the better part of the year trying to figure out what could be producing its own crazy results...
...ADAM RIESS when: 1998-2001 what he did: Helped prove that Einstein was right in the first place: a mysterious antigravity force that acts like Einstein's cosmological constant is evidently quite real
...Adam Hochschild's brilliant and damning "King Leopold's Ghost" describes the early colonization and exploitation of the Congo. Long before Sierra Leone, Belgium's colonial army encouraged the amputation of body parts as proof that native soldiers had actually killed their enemies. Former Financial Times correspondent Michela Wrong's "In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz" details Joseph Desire Mobutu's rise to power and his descent into paranoia, isolation and self destruction. Mobutu's Congo, Wrong writes, was a modern-day kleptocracy - a nation state that institutionalized theft...