Word: creations
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...study suggests it's not so simple. Published in the Aug. 30 issue of Nature, the paper shows that the creation of a comet is probably a much more complicated process than anyone thought. The evidence comes from the Spitzer Space Telescope, which uses infrared-sensitive cameras to peer through the shroud of dust that surrounds newly forming planetary systems to see what's going on inside. In one such system, known as IRAS 4B, about 1,000 light-years from Earth, astronomers from the University of Rochester have detected a disk-shaped knot of material that will...
...Lessons Learned from the Market's Perfect Storm. That year saw a string of bank failures and a stock-market collapse that was halted only when J.P. Morgan browbeat his fellow moguls into ponying up cash to stop the panic. The 1907 crisis in turn led to the creation of the Federal Reserve, which was supposed to do what Morgan did, only more reliably...
...back into history, questioning the U.S. decision to leave Vietnam. And his views on Israel sound to the right even of the Bush Administration: "It is not in the interest of the United States, at a time when it is being threatened by Islamist terrorists, to assist in the creation of another state that will support terrorism," he writes...
...Dashboard item "nakba," we reported that almost 100,000 Arabs fled their homeland before and after the creation of Israel. But approximately 700,000 Palestinian refugees were displaced...
...completely different and relevant television show. Whereas “American Idol” is essentially a karaoke competition—that is, singing songs that already exist—“So You Think You Can Dance” exposes viewers to the entire process of artistic creation. It reveals the importance of choreography, struggles of rehearsal, and a finished product that is subjected to harsh critique...