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...throwback, an astronomer who studied the features of "bright stars," those visible to the naked eye. Ellen Dorrit Hoffleit was born in Florence, Ala., on March 12, 1907, 23 years before the discovery of Pluto. At Yale, she compiled The Bright Star Catalogue, which described the positions of stars as well as their color, brightness and motion. In 1957 she became director of the Maria Mitchell Observatory at Nantucket, Mass., where she mentored a generation of women who pursued astronomy careers. Hoffleit...
...federal district court jury in Denver deliberated six days before finding Joseph Nacchio, former CEO of Qwest Communications, guilty of 19 counts of insider trading. Nacchio, 57, made millions selling Qwest stock, touting the company's bright prospects even while its fortunes were tanking. Sentencing is set for July. The fallen corporate star could face a decade in prison and millions in fines...
...world, which orbits a comfortable 92.9 million miles from the flames of the sun, 581c hovers just 7 million miles from its home star. What prevents it from being incinerated like a match head is that its star is a red dwarf, only about one one-hundredth as bright as the sun. The dim light coupled with the planet's close proximity places it in what astronomers call the habitable zone: the spot at which temperatures remain comfortable and water can remain liquid. All this has led to a fair amount of astronomical hyperventilating. "On the treasure...
...weeks later, models again took the stage on the Harvard campus, as throngs of students swarmed the Harvard Bright Hockey Center for the thirteenth year of “Eleganza.” While the very existence of two fashion shows in the span of a month might be anomalous for Harvard, something else stood out: this event had ethnic undertones as well...
...Despite his father's imprisonment and Yeltsin's own record of rebelliousness, the youth proved bright enough to earn an engineering degree, join the Communist Party and launch a career as an industrial apparatchik. After a stint as head of an engineering plant in Ekaterinburg - then called Sverdlovsk - he moved into full-time party work in 1968 and became head of the regional party organization by 1976. His record as a tough and effective administrator attracted the attention of Gorbachev, who in 1985 invited him to Moscow, where Yeltsin was promoted to head of the city's party organization...