Word: blacks
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That's complicated by district caps for the percentage of white, black and "other" students in each school. Particularly in racially imbalanced neighborhoods, students may be barred from attending schools of their choosing or even schools near their homes because of these caps...
Hawking's speech concerned the nature of infinitely dense cosmic objects called "singularities," which are found at the center of black holes...
...Black holes are formed when massive stars, having exhausted their nuclear fuel, collapse under the weight of their own gravity until they become so dense that nothing that enters their sphere of influence can escape--even light...
There was plenty of room to stretch out in Sanders Theatre yesterday, as renowned physicist Stephen W. Hawking described the mathematical underpinnings of black holes in his second of three Loeb lectures...
...important thing is that you'll get the flavor of the formula for black hole entropy" rather than understand all the equations, Hawking said...