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Imagine a Mexican-American TV soap opera written with Federico Garcia Lorca's dramatic intensity and passion for female characters but produced with the randy exuberance of a soft-core-porn video. Then spread it all across the gritty black-and-white panels of a comic book. What you would get is Love and Rockets, the comics series created by Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez, known to the comixcenti as Los Bros. Hernandez...
...Foreign Cultures credit for a full-year foreign language course beyond the first-year level. However, despite this provision, many foreign language courses--even those with substantial literary, historical and political components--do not pass muster with the Core Committee. The Spanish 35-36 sequence includes novels by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and an in-depth study of several South American countries, but petitions to receive Core credit for these courses have repeatedly been rejected by the Core Committee...
...that time, technical limitations meant scientists had only identified one x-ray nova as definitely containing a black hole. But new technologies have shown Garcia and his fellow researchers three more x-ray novae with black holes...
Even four years ago, Garcia said, the data on black holes and event horizons would have failed the informal "thumb rule" in science: "If you can stick your thumb on it and blot out the important data point, then you're really in trouble...
Chandra has cleaner and more precisely aligned mirrors than any other telescope. According to Garcia, the improvement means Chandra can see objects that are 100 times dimmer than what previous telescopes could see--and that difference is enough to detect the factor of 100 in brightness between neutron stars and black holes...