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...ceremony, Jackson's brothers led a procession of guests as they carried his casket into the Holly Terrace of the Great Mausoleum. Each person was allowed one final, personal farewell before walking away. One guest pointed to longtime Jackson family friend Clifton Davis' rendition of "Never Can Say Goodbye" (a song he wrote for the Jackson 5), performed earlier in the night, as a fitting summary of the collective sentiment. "[Davis] stopped the song at the end and said, 'Michael, we can't say goodbye,' " the guest recalls. "'But what we can say is that we love you.' " (See pictures...
...researchers noticed one potential signal: the sudden variance between two distinct states within one system, known by the less technical term squealing. In an ecological system like a forest, for example, squealing might look like an alternation between two stable states - barren versus fertile - before a drought takes its final toll on the woodland and transforms it into a desert, at which point even monsoons won't bring the field back to life. Fish populations seem to collapse suddenly as well - overfishing causes fluctuations in fish stocks until it passes a threshold, at which point there are simply...
...sharp coagulation of reality.” All individual choices are colored with the pigments of despair; all action comes to seem only a futile bulwark against ultimate insanity, or suicide, or conformity. Reading the book Cortázar’s way traps one in a final loop between two random chapters. “Sometimes I am convinced that the triangle is another name for stupidity, that eight times eight is madness or a dog,” utters one of Oliveira’s friends, regressing into nonsensical nihilism...
...scenes, in which Death Eaters whiz by like toxic, black fumes across Britain’s bright skies and cause chaos throughout London, the malevolence that will characterize the rest of the Potter series becomes painfully evident. Although this installment works largely as a transition for the two-part finale, the strengths of David Yates’ directing and Steve Kloves’ script make this Potter film the strongest and most entertaining to date. In “Half-Blood Prince,” Voldemort is back and more powerful than ever. In addition to wreaking havoc throughout both...
Instead, the phones will be loaned out at the end of the semester among the students enrolled in CS 50—a number that usually reaches roughly 300—as one option for their final projects. Malan said he sees the phones as “a welcome experiment” to enhance an already comprehensive curriculum...