Word: apartness
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...idea was quickly dropped, but the discovery of it a half-century later caused a stir on both sides of the English Channel, not least because these days it seems so utterly improbable: quite apart from their distinctive histories and identity, Britain and France in recent years have been on totally different trajectories - London up, Paris down - and relations between the two leaders of the past decade, President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Tony Blair, have been prickly at best. Opposing positions on the war in Iraq and on European farm subsidies have at times degenerated into public shouting matches...
...super-duper nova, dubbed SN 2006gy, was set apart from the more common variety by what happened in the center of the star as it was dying. Typically, a massive star exhausts the elemental fuel in its core and begins to collapse inward. The outer layers blow off in a huge flare we recognize as a supernova while the core becomes more and more compressed, eventually forming the infinitely dense node that is a black hole. In SN 2006gy, the sheer mass of the star produced so much core heat and gamma-ray radiation that it created matter and antimatter...
...Twin Towers, wanders uptown in a daze and moves in with his estranged wife. DeLillo's tone is crushingly earnest--has he made a joke since 1985? His characters speak in leaden faux profundities, and they're so sunk in post-traumatic ennui you can barely tell them apart. One day a great novel will rise from the ruins of the Twin Towers, but it's not Falling...
...Apart from side effects and a shift toward off-the-rack medicine, objections to the polypill are based on concerns that we're becoming too reliant on drugs: "Walking for 45 minutes most days of the week would give the equivalent benefits of the polypill," says Roger Allan, chairman of the clinical issues committee of Australia's National Heart Foundation. The polypill, he says, "is the lazy man's option." In 2004, health experts in the Netherlands proposed the polymeal-fish, red wine, garlic, vegetables, fruit, almonds, dark chocolate-as an alternative of roughly equal potency...
...Crimson heavyweights have been unstoppable this season, felling opponents with not only the varsity eight, but most or all of the other boats. They enter Sunday’s races ranked first in the EARC final polls for every boat apart from the second varsity, which is ranked second to Brown...