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...major premise of marginalia is that life is infinitely adjustable. As soon as a work comes under someone else's scrutiny, up rises the impulse to correct, enlarge, destroy...
...include huge planets that career around their stars not in circular orbits but in elongated ones; their gravity would send any Earthlike neighbors flying off into space. Says Princeton astronomer Scott Tremaine: "Not a single prediction for what we'd find in other systems has turned out to be correct...
...specific details of our theory may or may not be correct," Narayan said, "but whatever explanation one comes up with will very likely have to invoke the event horizon to explain this dramatic difference in the brightness of these two systems...
...only Democratic and Republican voters, and the immigrants and urban poor who are frequently missed by such surveys generally fall in the former category. As could be expected, the debate turned on whose ox was gored; in 1991, Newt Gingrich wrote a letter urging the use of sampling to correct an undercount in Georgia, but six years later, as the GOP recognized the potential of sampling to increase Democratic influence, he wrote a similar letter opposing...
...ghost that Bush's nominee for secretary of defense probably wishes had stayed buried. The paper claims that during tapes from the Nixon administration, Rumsfeld, on his way to his first stint in the Pentagon under Gerald Ford, can be heard agreeing with some of Nixon's less politically correct assessments of minority groups...