Word: brights
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...mountain, Hubble encountered his greatest scientific rival, Harlow Shapley, who had already made his reputation by measuring the size of the Milky Way. Using bright stars called Cepheid variables as standardized light sources, he had gauged the galaxy as being an astounding 300,000 light-years across--10 times as big as anyone had thought. Yet Shapley claimed that the Milky Way was the whole cosmic ball of wax. The luminous nebulae were, he insisted, just what they looked like: clouds of glowing gas that were relatively nearby...
...since that Sunday, the Crimson has run off 28 straight wins, including a 6-2 victory over the Bears at Bright Hockey Center on Feb. 13. Harvard plays Brown for the third time this season in the semifinals of the AWCHA National Championship tonight at 6 p.m. Boston time. WHRB will broadcast the game, as well as Harvard's game on Saturday, on 95.3 FM and on the Internet at www.broadcast.com...
...Such excellence has come to be a trademark of these Harvard athletes, and the future looks as bright as ever for the Crimson...
...Still, it would be nice if a Crimson sports team did not have to be the best team ever in the history of the sport to catch the school's attention. Ask the men's hockey team how embarrassing it is to have Cornell fans transform Bright Hockey Center into Lynah Rink East...
Band in Berlin is not so much a big musical as a concentrated concert. But it reminds theatergoers of a time when shows had bright tunes and high hopes--and when a group of six sang brilliantly in the face of political madness...