Word: dwarfs
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...planet or is it a star? Or might it be a brown dwarf? Those questions were being debated throughout the rarefied world of astronomy last week after a University of Arizona team announced the first sighting of a planet outside the solar system. It appeared to be the long-awaited breakthrough hi the search for planetary systems other than our own: a warm ball of gas about the size of Jupiter seen orbiting around Van Biesbroeck 8, a star some 21 light-years from the earth. Since a light-year is the distance light travels in one year...
They'll also dwarf senior twins John and Jim Haufler both 6ft 1in guards. Jimmy starts while John and junior Steve Klemick alternate at sixth man our scout has divined...
Sure, other plants live in the Oval Office-palms on the floor, half a dozen dwarf spathiphyllum, sometimes pots of ornamental peppers. The Swedish ivy, however, is above the rest, literally and figuratively. As the most important houseplant on earth, it gets, one imagines, special attention, the perquisites of position. Perhaps the leaves are individually daubed and polished each evening, watered with Maryland spring water specially sluiced in through titanium pipes, pruned by Kyoto-trained specialists. Maybe an occasional Marine Band rendition of Hail to the Schefflera...
...move is a testimony to Mubarak's diplomatic skills. After most of the Arab world decided to ostracize Egypt over the Camp David accords, Sadat made matters worse by denouncing his onetime allies. He called the ruling family of Saudi Arabia "goatherders" and berated Hussein as a "dwarf." After Sadat's assassination in 1981, however, Mubarak quietly began repairing the damage. He refrained from attacking fellow Arabs in public and ordered Egyptian newspapers to follow his example. At the same time, the Egyptian President down-played his country's relationship with Israel, its treaty partner. Soon after...
...lover. The other major awards at the seemingly endless (a record 3 hr. 46 min.) ceremony went to favorites: Robert Duvall won the best actor Oscar for his role as an alcoholic country singer in Tender Mercies; Linda Hunt received the best supporting actress award for playing a male dwarf in The Year of Living Dangerously; and Fanny and Alexander, the last major feature Ingmar Bergman has said he will ever direct, took the prize for best foreign picture...