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...Large Magellanic Cloud. If MACHOs exist, explains physicist Christopher Stubbs of the University of California at Santa Barbara, who helped design the experiment, they should occasionally pass between the earth and these background stars. Because gravity bends light, the MACHOs would act as lenses, causing the stars temporarily to brighten enough for the cameras to detect...
...just a few days, U.C. representative campaigns begin. Students can probably expect the usual. Kinko's wide range of neon colors will brighten the campus, featuring bad top-ten lists and trite, self-serving words like "commitment," "dedication" and "experience...
...slowly raises her face to the screaming crowd, the stage lights brighten to reveal six shaggy-haired men positioned in a circle around her, all slouched over their guitars, drums, keyboards and harmonicas...
...Cabot's social life did slow down. During the winter, there wasn't much to brighten the 15 minute walk in sub-zero wind chill temperatures...
Nonetheless, the conference results brighten the prospects for an October peace conference. But the Palestinians were not celebrating. A frustrated Yasser Arafat called his job as P.L.O. chief "a catastrophe" and dramatically pleaded to step down. Said Yasser Abd Rabbo of the P.L.O. executive committee: "We are between the options of suicide and suicide...