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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...dwarf, only about a hundredth as bright as the sun. During the 1990s, sky surveys revealed that these puny stars are as thick as ants at a picnic, accounting for up to 70% of all the stars in the Milky Way. Because an M-dwarf is so faint, its habitable zone is much smaller, so any planet that falls within that zone would be much closer to it than Earth is to the sun. And that, says Harvard astronomer David Charbonneau, gives planet hunters a huge advantage. "Basically," he says, "it lets us cheat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Discovering Planets Just Got Easier | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

Disario said he stayed with Colono until Boston Emergency Medical Service officers arrived on the scene. He said that when he checked Colono’s carotid artery for a pulse it was faint, which indicated that Colono “was losing blood somewhere...

Author: By Jamison A. Hill, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Prosecution Calls Witnesses in Pring-Wilson Trial | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

...crowded shuttle bounded closer to the Quad I reverted to my natural Texan drawl, filled with lots of “mama’s” and “ain’ts” and some elongated vowels that could make my English tutor faint...

Author: By Jessica C. Coggins | Title: Don’t Mess with Texas | 11/5/2007 | See Source »

...setting sun burns orange into the soft waves. There’s a sensory overload—the whoosh of oars slicing the smooth surface of the river combines with the smell of hot dog vendors, the sight of families stretched out on picnic blankets, and the faint buzz of cars rolling by on Memorial Drive. Little does the girl, standing at water’s edge with her father on that October afternoon, know that in a few years she will be captain of a team that has been to the NCAA Championships 10 times, scraping...

Author: By Vanda R. Gyuris, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HEAD OF THE CHARLES '07: Return of the Queen | 10/20/2007 | See Source »

...Cook points out, Louisiana could destroy the Dems' faint hopes. Landrieu is facing the toughest race of her career, one in which Cook says she only has a 50% chance of winning. Unlike her previous opponents, the G.O.P. has recruited a real threat this time: State Treasurer John Kennedy, who switched parties in August in order to run against her, though he has yet to officially announce his candidacy. Katrina left the state trending G.O.P. after displacing hundreds of thousands of African American voters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Republicans' Big Senate Fear | 10/15/2007 | See Source »

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