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...electrons but carry an opposite charge. But when NASA controllers trained the orbiting Compton Gamma Ray Observatory on this core region and beamed the data back, Purcell saw something on his computer screen at Northwestern University that nobody could have predicted: a veritable colossus of antimatter, a vast fountain spewing out from the center of our galaxy and reaching trillions of miles into space...
...capable of generating explosions with sufficient force. The rate at which such explosions would have to occur, however, is mind-boggling: around one a century, Purcell estimates. Since supernovas have never been observed to go off at that rate in our galaxy, this theory suggests that the antimatter fountain originated in a more violent epoch in the distant past...
Microsoft has long hired based on I.Q. and "intellectual bandwidth." Gates is the undisputed ideal: talking to most people is like sipping from a fountain, goes the saying at the company, but with Gates it's like drinking from a fire hose. Gates, Ballmer and Myhrvold believe it's better to get a brilliant but untrained young brain--they're called "Bill clones"--than someone with too much experience. The interview process tests not what the applicants know but how well they can process tricky questions: If you wanted to figure out how many times on average you would have...
...compatriots would not let the actor known as "the face of Italy" pass into memory without a poetic farewell. So just after sunset on the day he succumbed, at 72, to pancreatic cancer, his wife Flora stood with the mayor of Rome and 500 other mourners at the Trevi Fountain, into whose waters Anita Ekberg had lured Mastroianni in the famous scene from Federico Fellini's 1960 La Dolce Vita. Now the lights faded, the water from the Neptune statue stopped, a lone flutist played the theme from 8 1/2 as two black drapes were stretched over the fountain...
...beautiful girl on a beach. She has something important to tell him, but he can't quite hear her and he must join his reveling friends. As the movies' most famous Latin lover since Valentino walks away, the girl smiles benignly. She might have been in the Trevi Fountain crowd last week, recalling an actor who displayed the foibles of modern man, and the grace and gravity with which one man can bear them...