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...being psychoanalyzed this way. I resent being classed with gun nuts and sexual predators every time I switch into four-wheel drive. I'm after traction, not dominance, O.K.? It snows a lot where I live, and my desire to reach my office safely isn't proof of some dark syndrome...
...numbers." First, the cosmos is 13.7 billion years old, give or take a negligible couple of hundred million years. Second, the first stars turned on just 200 million years after the Big Bang. Finally, the universe is made of three things in the following proportions: 4% ordinary atoms; 23% "dark matter," whose nature is still unknown; and 73% "dark energy," the equally mysterious force whose antigravity effect is speeding up the cosmic expansion. "This," says astrophysicist John Bahcall, of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., "is a rite of passage for cosmology, from speculation to precision science...
...Einsteinian sense, is flat. That's consistent with a theory called inflation, which posits that the cosmos underwent a period of turbocharged expansion before it was a second old. "I have to admit," says Bahcall, "that I was skeptical of the picture theorists had put together. Inflation, dark matter, dark energy--it's all pretty implausible. But this implausible, crazy universe has now been confirmed with exquisite detail...
...turn to sing. A dozen kids cluster round, jostling for the best view of the fingers that sprint across the strings. Then Tuku's voice, strong and clear with a hint of gravel, silences the choristers as it launches into an improv medley: "What you do in the dark can be known in a day/ What you do behind closed doors can be known everywhere." "One, two, three, four child ... no go school, no food." And from his 1998 hit Todii, a question, originally about aids, but now so relevant to all of the country's crises, whether political, economic...
...same shops, worshiping at the same churches. Trouble might seem unavoidable. Yet Genevieve Uwamariya, a Catholic nun who lost her entire family to genocide, has since 1998 run a project in which more than 400 killers have met and talked with the families of their victims. A tall, slim, dark woman with graying hair, she says that one of the participants is the man who killed her father: "When he asked to see me I was unsure. But I said to myself, 'I need to be an example. I cannot tell people to do this if I cannot...