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...felt by many at entrusting the fate of our nation to an executive who prefers short work days and whose background does not seem to include involvement with the issues he is now charged to address. And while his inaugural may not have fully come to terms with the darker side of America, we can only hope his presidency will...

Author: By Christopher M. Kirchhoff, | Title: On the Inaugural | 1/22/2001 | See Source »

...local kids, mostly in their teens, roam about, most shirtless, some playing guitar, others asking for tickets, others seemingly satisfied to simply watch the vans and VIPs and visitors pass by. I notice that most of the Brazilians outside the gates without tickets are about six of seven shades darker than the Brazilians who are entering the City of Rock. Maybe this is more like a real city than I first thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock in Rio, Part 3 | 1/18/2001 | See Source »

...using a telescope with finer resolution, Garcia and his colleagues have found that black holes are 100 times darker than neutron stars...

Author: By Andrew S. Holbrook, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Scientists Find New Proof of Black Holes | 1/17/2001 | See Source »

...significant number of studies cast doubt onto the effectiveness of forests in absorbing carbon, and Jeffrey Jenkins, a highly respected researcher sponsored by the British Government, even proposed a theory showing the opposite effect: planting trees in northern latitudes on previously bare land will darken the Earth's surface. Darker areas absorb more sunlight which will increase the Earth's temperatures. This might completely offset and even reverse the positive effects of trees decreasing the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: U.S. Fails Test at The Hague | 12/5/2000 | See Source »

...sides, reworkings of previous material and a few new songs, with such wide variations in texture and style that it's almost impossible to pin the group down. Machismo, the accompanying EP, provides perhaps a better picture of Gomez in a nutshell, with its dance-like title track, the darker ballad "Do's and Don't's" and "Touchin' Up," a track almost Caribbean in its coolness. But while there are some absolutely amazing songs on Hotline-such as "Wharf Me" and the first single, a cover of the Beatles' "Getting Better,"-the album as a whole is more...

Author: By Arts Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Albums | 12/1/2000 | See Source »

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