Word: fussing
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...excitement on the Harvard side was quick-lived. Just four minutes after Totman's score, Hartford senior midfielder Sandra Doreleijers used teammate Sonja Fuss' cross to put the ball past Harvard freshman goalie Cheryl Gunther for the equalizer...
...another, but it was the punch line of Caltech astronomer GEORGE DJORGOVSKI's e-mailed message to colleagues last week informing them that a cosmic mystery that had stumped astronomers for three years (TIME, Aug. 30) wasn't so mysterious after all. Slightly embarrassed by all the fuss, including at least one starstruck Page One account suggesting otherworldly possibilities, Djorgovski said the enigmatic speck of light that he had found in the constellation Serpens was what he had suspected it was all along--a "sub-sub-subspecies" of quasar, a bright object energized by a black hole in its center...
...scientists usually talk to one another, but it was the punch line of Caltech astronomer George Djorgovski's e-mailed message to colleagues last week informing them that a cosmic mystery that had stumped astronomers for three years wasn't so mysterious after all. Slightly embarrassed by all the fuss, including at least one starstruck Page One account suggesting otherworldly possibilities, Djorgovski said the enigmatic speck of light that he had found in the constellation Serpens was what he had suspected it was all along - a "sub-sub-subspecies" of quasar, a bright object energized by a black hole...
...used to send up the national obsession with all things Kennedy. He put Drew Barrymore on the cover, for instance, in a parody of Marilyn Monroe in the sewed-on gown singing Happy Birthday, Mr. President. When an uproar ensued, Kennedy pretended he didn't understand what the fuss was about. Or maybe he really didn't understand--it was just another image from the family album...
...found instead someone with a firm voice, incredibly self-possessed and with a day-to-dayness about her. You could picture that she could make her way in Manhattan, hailing taxis and going to the movies and taking her children for ice cream in Central Park without causing a fuss...