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...billion years that the universe has been around (and that?s what looking into deep space is, looking back in time toward the Big Bang), the fine constant has changed with age, even the minor change of 1 in 100,000 these scientists are talking about has profound implications. This was a figure that was supposed to be rock solid...
...coming from the exhaust of the campervan and, after some discussion about whether to heed him, the couple pulled over. Falconio inspected the van with the stranger, then came to the front and asked Lees to rev the engine. When he walked behind the van again, Lees heard a bang. It was the last she saw of her boyfriend. Tying her up, the gunman put her into his pickup while he went to the campervan. His mistake, and Lees' fortune, was that he restrained her hands in front, allowing her to maneuver out of the ankle bindings and escape into...
...first week the Sierra Leone soldiers practice without bullets. "Some of them are struggling," says Averill. "They're not safe and we won't let them fire live rounds until they're safe." So the soldiers crawl around through the long grass at the edge of camp shouting "bang, bang" in imitation of gunfire...
...Scotty’s” is a place of absolutely no pretension, and I like that. It is a place that employs a lot of single moms, and is a stop for truckers bound for Canada craving a hot meal. We fix our toothpick dispenser with a bang on the counter and carry hot plates stacked up our arms, while trying to soothe the extremely overworked short-order cook. We use violent metaphors like “hurricane” and “slamming” for understaffed busy moments—common...
Apparently quite a lot happened in the first second following the Big Bang. This is only slightly less time than it took me to become hopelessly confused reading about it. DON McCORT Fort Myers...