Word: glow
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...talking about a very intense light force that can vary in its wavelength. So you can chemically excite the chemicals or molecules within fingerprints or blood, and that excitement makes the specimen glow - it becomes visible to the naked eye. Then you'd have to remove whatever you're looking at and bring it back...
...nights later, Becker is at a dinner with Völkl retailers. He poses for pictures, jokes about his woman trouble, patiently answers the same old questions. "You still have that glow," says one man. "For my wife and her friends, you still have it. It's a blessing." "And sometimes a curse," Becker says...
...implication: the whole cosmos must at one point have been much smaller and hotter. About 300,000 years after the instant of the Big Bang, the entire visible universe would have been a cloud of hot, incredibly dense gas, not much bigger than the Milky Way is now, glowing white hot like a blast furnace or the surface of a star. Because this cosmic glow had no place to go, it must still be there, albeit so attenuated that it took the form of feeble microwaves. Penzias and Wilson later won the Nobel Prize for the accidental discovery of this...
...feds admitted they have no evidence that the company's managers were distributing drugs. In turn BBQ admits it could have done more to prevent ravers from taking ecstasy before and during its parties. BBQ's raves will be allowed to go on, but pacifiers and glow sticks will be banned. BBQ will also ban "chill rooms," where ravers go to cool down from ecstasy's body-temperature-raising effects. So while the raves will continue, more than likely so will the overdoses...
...ARNO PENZIAS AND ROBERT WILSON when: 1965 what they did: Accidentally detected the leftover glow from the Big Bang ? which astronomers are now deciphering to learn the composition and ultimate fate of the cosmos...