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...crisis. If the constant has the right value, then cosmologists can keep inflation. The cosmos would have started out in a long period described by scientists as "loitering" or "coasting," providing stars and galaxies with ample time to form. "Then," says Sandra Faber, Primack's Santa Cruz colleague, "suddenly the cosmological constant would kick in, gunning the expansion, making it faster." Measuring a large Hubble Constant and an apparently low age today, in other words, wouldn't be a reliable indicator of what was going on earlier in the universe's lifetime. Theorists might hate Einstein's abandoned child...
...Mindy Faber's "Delirium" stood out as the most powerful of the previewed films. When the video opens, Faber's mother, draped in a long black housecoat, is pitching herself against moving cars, attempting suicide. With background music, the scene is almost funny, until the audience slowly understands what they are actually witnessing from Faber's voice-over. The intense opening sets up the video's exploration of female madness in history as both a spectacle and a rebellion. "Delirium" is so visually engaging that images move almost too quickly from the screen. At the same time, Faber doesn...
...make frequent contributions to The New York Times Book Review, have compiled Faber and Faber's collection of gay short fiction, and been made a Chevalier de I'Ordre des Arts et Letters by the French government---all things you've described as "establishmenty." Is that trend just a personal preference or is there a strategy behind...
...Faber's trip, the riders stopped at a pizza place and asked for and received 8 pizzas. "Almost every time we asked for food, they would say `sure,'" she says...
...Faber says that before her trip, she didn't have any conception of what 80 miles was, and that at times, during 11-mile climbs in the Rockies, she didn't think she would make it. "People did walk at times, and some people would ride in the SAG, but with 18 gears, you can really make it, even if you have to go very slowly," she says...