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...region of our solar system known as Cygnus-Lyra. That spot was chosen both because it's rich in stars and because it lies above our own orbital plane. Kepler - which will be launched into not an Earth orbit but a solar orbit - can thus simply train its gaze up and never have to worry about any bodies in the home solar system blocking its view. (See pictures of five nations' space programs...
...prevailing concerns about the flaccid economy, it had been a very good day. Stanley, however, says the rewards are more than monetary. "I like the idea that the snobbism is taken out of it here," he observes, as shaggy-haired guys in rhinestone-encrusted Kiss shirts sip wine and gaze at paintings. "I'm exposing people to art who have never been in a gallery." And they were doing something you don't often see people do at a highbrow art exhibit: they were having an incredible time...
...small booth in the middle of the Midtown Tunnel,” he writes in the prelude to the first poem of his newest book, “The Man in the Booth in the Midtown Tunnel.” In this collection, the poet’s gaze spans New York and the greater Boston area as he observes his characters with attentive and probing eyes. Holder recounts absurd moments in the miserably ordinary lives that constellate his world. He uses these stories as a sort of social critique of today’s humdrum realities, engaging a universal...
...Obama considered this, turning his gaze this way and that along the street, then raised his voice in a sudden challenge to the taxis crawling below...
...behest, we have become a “service nation.” At least this appears to be the case from the effusive selflessness that has filled campus bulletin boards and open lists since the dawn of the new liberal epoch. With a shocking suddenness, the undergraduate gaze has swung from Manhattan penthouses to Mississippi shantytowns. City Year is now a more desirable employer than Citigroup. The increasingly social spirit of our generation is undoubtedly a good thing. But it is not nearly good enough...