Word: giant
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Again, Gerstung toppled another giant of the EIWA, as Penn's wrestler was fifth-ranked in the conference...
...Judiciary Committee. The letter noted that foreign students account for one-third to one-half of all those enrolled in U.S. graduate schools in science and engineering. "It should be no surprise," the executives wrote, "that highly skilled U.S. engineers are not always available on a timely basis." Microchip giant Intel, for example, hired 300 engineers with master's or doctoral degrees last year. About 100 of them came from outside the U.S. "It's a pretty small number percentage-wise," says Tom Waldrop, an Intel spokesman, "but they have a very high effect on the success of the company...
Even if the new planets are sterile, though, their very existence is a powerful piece of astronomical news. If our solar system is any indication, giant, unpleasant planets are likely to be accompanied by small, friendly ones. Giant planets also tend to be attended by giant moons, small worlds in their own right, and these too could be hospitable to life. Perhaps most important, the discovery of planets around three relatively nearby sunlike stars implies that the Milky Way, 100 billion stars strong, must be bursting with other worlds. Unless the chances are literally 100 billion to one against...
...enhanced by Krank's electronic inventions. A little boy, Denree (Joseph Lucien, who has the biggest eyes and oral fixation of any young actor in a surrealist movie in recent memory), is one of the children kidnapped, and his adopted older brother, One (Ron Perlman, showing that the giant chin he sported in The Name of the Rose was no mere makeup), a fun fair strongman, attempts to find him. He is helped by Miette (Judith Vittet), the leader of a ragtag group of orphans. Together with the help and hindrance of a legion of freaks, Miette and One attempt...
...however. As Marcy points out, the planets are almost certainly orbited by one or more moons. "If they are comparable in size to the moons of Jupiter and Saturn," he says, "they could easily have rain and oceans." Such speculations fire the imagination. But the mere fact that these giant planets exist is enough for the scientists. As astronomers have learned, the discovery of one or two new heavenly objects is usually just the beginning. Marcy's team is already analyzing data from some 60 other stars. "We have hints," he says, "that there may be planets around some...