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...paraphrase former Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards, it takes being caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy to get a politician in trouble, and that's doubly true in the Age of Monica. There's no evidence that Condit is connected with Chandra's disappearance, but there is a lot of evidence that he is connected to her. Once Chandra went missing, he had an obligation to tell everything he knew about her in a timely way. While the Levys are searching for the daughter they pray is still alive, Condit seems intent on searching...
...decade later, though, Edwin Hubble discovered that the universe was expanding after all. Einstein immediately and with great relief discarded the cosmological constant, declaring it to be the biggest blunder of his life. (If he had stuck to his guns, he might have nabbed another Nobel...
...exotic particles add up to only about 35% of what you would need. Ergo, the extra curvature must come from some unseen energy--just about the amount, it turns out, suggested by the supernova observations. "I was highly dubious about dark energy based only on supernovas," says Princeton astrophysicist Edwin Turner (no relation to Michael, though the two often refer to each other as "my evil twin"). "This makes me take dark energy more seriously...
...armes, citoyens! Shake off passivity. We must recover some of the aesthetic activism that came into play in the Astor Place Riots of May, 1849, when New York audiences of Shakespeare divided their loyalties between the American actor Edwin Forrest and the British actor William Charles Macready. Forrest gave a crude, robust, vehement interpretation of Macbeth. Macready was more cerebral...
...Though Wheelwright concentrated in Fine Arts as an undergraduate, he returned to Harvard as a physics professor. In this position Wheelwright met Edwin H. Land, class of 1930, with whom Wheelwright joined to form Land Wheelwright Laboratories, which later became Polaroid Company...