Word: distantly
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...transition might not yet be able to reconcile the Core with the new distributive system. Yet with the exception of moral reasoning, the 11 current Core areas map fairly cleanly onto the three distribution categories. Because students are currently expected to take seven Core courses in the areas most distant from their concentration, Core courses already completed can cover students’ distribution requirements. As for moving courses out of the Core and into the departments, current Core courses could easily be moved into the department of the professor that teaches each course. These changes are quick and easy enough...
Astronomers have found more than 150 planets orbiting distant stars, but they?ve all been so much bigger than Earth that they?re totally inhospitable to life. But now, with a little help from Albert Einstein, they?ve spotted a world that is by far the smallest ever found- albeit still about 5.5 times the mass of our home planet- which means that many more, even smaller planets, could be discovered reasonably soon...
...invisible, so astronomers resorted to a sort of cosmic optical illusion, first proposed by Einstein in the 1930s, to detect it. Einstein pointed out that since massive objects bend light rays, a star could act as a sort of lens, focusing and magnifying the light of a more distant star passing behind it. In his original paper, Einstein doubted that such a thing would ever be seen- but he didn?t count on modern technology. Since 1997, a Polish-led team of astronomers has been using that technology in a project called OGLE, for Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (hence...
...nervous today about how Alito would perform once he faced the Senators. Some worried that Alito would suffer under the comparison to Chief Justice Robert?s stellar performance last August. Alito's nerdy earnestness and cold sincerity could break either way, making him look good-hearted and inspiring or distant and uncaring. In the end the intangible elements of his testimony were beyond their control...
When NASA first considered a mission to Pluto more than 15 years ago, the idea was to visit the last and most distant of the nine planets, an oddball whose icy composition, tilted orbit and tiny size made it unlike anything else in the solar system. But when the New Horizons probe finally takes off from Cape Canaveral?as early as next week, if all goes well?it will be heading for something else entirely. "This little misfit is now central to our understanding of the origin of our solar system," says Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute...