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...charms are all o’erthrown, / And what strenth I have’s mine own, / Which is most faint??” Prospero opens his epilogue to “The Tempest” with strange and wistful words: his spells are breaking even as he speaks; his return to the mortal world—and to a death that, though outside the comedy’s arc, feels eerily close—is imminent. But Shakespeare’s final play is too full, quakes with too much wonder and life to fall beneath...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Roth’s ‘Humbling’ Is Erudite, If Apathetic | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

These “ultra-faint?? dwarf galaxies, which lack stars and gas and are mainly composed of dark matter, were previously thought to be accredit only by galaxy-galaxy harassment, in which one large galaxy such as the Milky Way stripped a much smaller galaxy of its luminous matter...

Author: By Kerry K. Clark, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Dwarf Galaxies’ Existence Explained | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

...sound of the city in a story called “Oh, Joseph, I’m So Tired.” He writes that all the “little sounds add up and come together in a kind of hum. But it’s so faint??so very, very faint??that you can’t hear it unless you listen very carefully for a long time...

Author: By Christopher W. Snyder, | Title: Going Solo | 2/20/2004 | See Source »

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