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After 25 years as a singer, comedian, actress and a heavenly blend of all three, the lady has earned her halo. It may be mild hyperbole to call Midler the greatest entertainer in the universe -- there are, after all, other galaxies yet to be explored -- but who can doubt she's the hardest-working woman in show biz? In New York City, where she stars until Oct. 23 in the longest stop of her first tour in a decade, Bette is poetry in perpetual motion, from her prompt entrance at 8:10 (royalty is always punctual) to her exhausted departure...
...scientists know dark matter exists? Most galaxies rotate so quickly ) that they would disintegrate if they were not surrounded by a massive halo of invisible matter. Similarly, pairs and groups of galaxies revolve around one another faster than they should, unless there is more mass, and thus more gravity, than there appears...
...identity of dark matter. The candidates have included various kinds of subatomic particles, many of which aren't even known to exist; black holes; and even long, thin strings of pure energy left over from the Big Bang. Large planets or dim stars -- known as MACHOs (massive compact halo objects) -- are by far the most mundane of the solutions to the puzzle. They're also the least popular: theorists think there should be just enough dark matter to stop the universe's expansion without reversing it, and MACHOs can't be numerous enough...
...rockers have a touch of the devil in them. Some bare their demons flagrantly, others let their horns peek out from under a halo of good intentions. Matthew Sweet, who likes to mix bad-boy guitar licks with well- mannered melodies, belongs among the latter. As a lyricist, Sweet writes about girls and God with the same confessional zeal, seemingly torn between hardened skepticism and the promise of faith and romantic redemption. Yet despite his doubts -- or perhaps because he still cares enough to wonder -- Providence has smiled...
Shafts of equatorial sunshine pierce the jungle canopy and stained-glass windows of a tiny chapel, capturing the dictator's head in a halo of multicolored light. An imposing man in a gray sharkskin suit and shiny black shoes, he clasps his large hands and kneels in prayer, silently reciting the Eucharist service...