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Although Lakian picked up some momentum this month with a last minute ad campaign promoting his proposed 17 percent flat tax, the Woods Hole resident last night conceded the race to Romney at about...
...says Peck, an addicted and "struggling" golfer, who admits that his sport is "seemingly silly" but feels that its "blend of agony and ecstasy, work and play, caution and risk, painful serious learning and exuberant relaxation" offers something like an 18-hole way to enlightenment. Peck doesn't exactly say that if Jesus were to return to earth, he would have a 3 handicap, but wisdom and baloney might be added to his list just after agony and ecstasy. Both qualities are evident in his writings and his personality, though a surprising range of critics clearly feel that what predominates...
...Professor Herrnstein's death is a bitter loss for the students in the College," said Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles. "He leaves a tragic hole in the faculty...
...caused by a jet of subatomic particles spewing from the object at nearly the speed of light. (Because of its angle, the jet gives the illusion of moving faster than light, a physical impossibility.) The jet presumably comes from gas falling from an orbiting companion star into a black hole that weighs as much as a handful of stars. Typical quasars, in contrast, emanate from something with the mass of a million stars or more. Unfortunately, galactic dust largely hides the mini-quasar, so there is a limit to how much astronomers will be able to learn from...
Mystery Object: A black hole next door...