Word: arizonas
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...West Regional on Friday at Los Angeles, Arizona (31-2) meets Cornell (17-9); Seton Hall (21-12) plays Texas-El Paso (23-9); Iowa (22-9) battles Florida State (19-10) and Nevada-Las Vegas (27-5) plays Southwest Missouri State...
...team from the National Institutes of Health found a link between low metabolism rates and excessive weight gain over a period of several years. Their subjects were 171 Pima Indians in Arizona, a tribe in which two-thirds of the women and half the men are obese. Though there were variations among individuals, researchers generally found that the slower the metabolism, the greater the weight gain. Yet after a gain of between 20 lbs. and 45 lbs., % metabolism rates changed, rising to a new level...
None of which bears directly on the reasons why Rieke, a professor of astronomy at the University of Arizona, is worrying. She's been planning for this night for most of a year. Her invitation was an intriguing one: "If you want to see some real white-knuckle astronomy, be out here on the 14th." Astronomy isn't normally considered as nerve-racking a profession as, say, commodities trading or the high wire. This is a mistake. There is great tension, and it comes from scarcity. The mountains around Tucson, the "astronomy capital of the world," may bristle with telescopes...
Rieke has driven to the mountaintop with her husband George, also a professor of astronomy at the University of Arizona. The two of them are part of a team that made headlines around the world this winter when it announced the discovery of what appeared to be new galaxies farther out in space and back in time than any other yet seen. Tonight they plan to use the experimental Red Channel Spectrograph, which "sees" deep red light when looking at a galaxy known as M82. Their "eyeball," the spectrograph, is supposed to analyze light that has passed through the telescope...
...American literature. Sarah Worth (nee Price) boasts a Prynne among her ancestors and, like Hester, a daughter named Pearl. This mother too is a fallen woman, running away from Massachusetts and her physician-husband of some 20 years to join a charismatic Indian guru's ashram in the Arizona desert. After her plane lands in Los Angeles, she relays a message home to her best friend Midge: "I stayed in this motel near the airport in a dreary area called Hawthorne...