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...gravity minutely affects the color of light emitted by stars they orbit by altering the star’s own movements. Such light changes—called “doppler shifts”—produce redder light when gravity nudges the star towards an observer and bluer light when gravity moves it away. But these shifts are often too small to accurately measure. “You could find Jupiters but you couldn’t find Earths,” said Ronald L. Walsworth, a senior physics lecturer who helped lead the project...
...looked up from my own pre-dinner brew. A rare moment of clarity for this Psychology concentrator whose blood was probably bluer than his blazer...
...appearance than I was in Egypt. Because I am of Arab descent, foreign eyes gazed more keenly at me—at how much skin I showed and how much makeup I wore—than they did at my white friends, although their U.S. passports were no bluer than mine. Equally perceptible were the unabashed stares of lust, constant catcalls, and unsolicited conversations, winks, and even physical contact, as if choosing to show an inch of skin—i.e. my ankles—entitled men to unwanted advances and women to judgmental looks. I could never walk down...
...quietly grows within you, filling you up until one day you wake up and something just feels different. Nothing in particular has changed, but somehow, everything has changed. Your stomach twists up in knots, your heart sits a little lighter in your chest. The world looks brighter, the sky bluer. And even though you’ve never felt like this before, you immediately understand what all the poets and singers were writing and singing about. I know, it all sounds cliché, but what can I say? It’s the only way to describe how I feel...
...talk with Larry King, Libby also discussed the prerogatives of the presidency and the opinion of Dick Cheney that certain things have to be handled away from the public view. "He firmly believes-believes to the point where, when he talks about it, his eyes get a little bluer-that for the presidency to operate properly, it needs to be able to have confidential communications," Libby said. The question now is whether some of Libby's own confidential communications will in fact hinder the presidency it was meant to help...