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Over the coming decade, Alcock and others believe, this collective ignorance may at last be dispelled. Small bands of determined researchers are embarking on elaborate hunts for the hidden side of the cosmos. Some, using telescopes, are taking aim at the dark halo that rings our galaxy, searching for large, dim objects like burned-out stars. Others are positioning electronic detectors in underground tunnels, hoping to entrap phantom particles that may be so prevalent that they drench the universe like invisible drops of rain. "Someday soon," predicts University of Chicago astrophysicist David Schramm, "one of these groups is going...
...same basic building blocks as ordinary, visible matter: protons, neutrons and electrons. One possibility is that dark matter is nothing more exotic than planet-like objects that are bigger than Jupiter but too small to shine like the sun. Such objects, known as MACHOs (massive compact halo objects), may be orbiting our own Milky Way like swarms of giant bees...
...only reachable conclusion from this travesty: stay away lest you be duped into spending $6.75 by the superstar halo perched on Steve Martin's white-haired head...
...Kane comic- book character, earned well over $1 billion in its theatrical and video release and in a boffo merchandise blitz. Yet, however imposing its grosses, however many kids in developing countries wore T shirts with the logo that is supposed to look like a bat in a halo but inevitably suggests a gaping mouth with five rotten teeth, the film was wan, jangled, lost in meandering murk...
Couched in a halo of nutrient cells, an egg smaller than the dot on an i drifts slowly down a Fallopian tube, one of a pair of narrow passages that lead from a woman's ovaries to her womb. Like a beacon guiding ships at night, the egg sends forth a calling signal. A convoy of sperm -- the remnants of an armada that was once a couple of hundred million strong -- sails into view, their long tails thrashing vigorously. Lured by the chemical signal, several hundred of the most energetic swimmers close in on the egg, their narrow tips unleashing...