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Thomas Badian was expecting a package, just not this one. Standing in his doorway, smiling, he opened the envelope a courier handed to him. Then he froze, and the color drained from his face. It was over: after two years overseas, the former New York City hedge-fund operator had been located. Badian slammed the door of his posh Vienna, Austria, apartment in the heart of the city's embassy quarter--but not before being officially served with a civil lawsuit linking him to the beleaguered U.S. commodities firm Refco and tying him and Refco to a type of fraud...
...shaken.Suddenly, Mo Barbarosa—Decker supporter and Cambridge resident—lunges into the middle of the street, offering campaign advice.“Nobody can see you,” Barbarosa chides, as he wraps a light pink silk scarf—designed, he says, to add color to her outfit of black skirt, white pearls, and leather boots—around her neck.Decker’s supporters are out in full force on this unseasonably warm Saturday. Decker, who grew up in Cambridgeport’s Woodrow Wilson Court public housing, has a strong local network...
...wrote Doyle Professor of Cosmology John P. Huchra. “‘Cloudshine’ is really a neat way of beating that absorption.” Additional research led by an assistant professor at the University of California-San Diego, Paolo Padoan, revealed that the color of a nebula’s cloudshine is correlated to its density. Less dense areas appear relatively blue, and denser areas appear relatively red. Foster and Goodman’s images can thus be used to map a cloud’s interior structure. “By using the reflective...
...soon see what I mean. Let me pose you a question, not about God but about the heavens: "Why is the sky blue?" I offer two answers: 1) The sky is blue because of the wavelength dependence of Rayleigh scattering; 2) The sky is blue because blue is the color God wants...
...continues to exist today, not in the least undermined by our advance in scientific understanding. The religious explanation has been supplemented--but not supplanted--by advances in scientific knowledge. We now may, if we care to, think of Rayleigh scattering as the method God has chosen to implement his color scheme...