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...nuclear fuel, they collapse in on themselves, finally reaching a point of infinite density that physicists call a singularity. At that moment, time stops and the gravitational field is so strong that no light can escape from this mass. What we have all come to know as a black hole is created...
...Carpenter, love songs aren't mainly about passion, and love isn't only what you felt for the person you slept with until the night before last. It can be the memory of an elder sibling whose departure from home left the first big hole in a child's heart (Only a Dream), or the appeal of North Carolina's rural landscape seen as "a blur from the driver's side" (I Am a Town). Even her least typical hit -- Down at the Twist and Shout, the Cajun-ragin' Grammy winner from her 1990 album, Shooting Straight in the Dark...
Bisexual behavior may serve a similar function for another highly intelligent mammal: the dolphin. "Sometimes male dolphins use homosexual sex to assert dominance over other males, and other times they use it in a friendly way, but always they are negotiating relationships," says Richard Connor, a biologist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution...
...Washington fell to naval aide Edward Beach. His assignment was made all the more difficult given the grim prognosis for Washington should it be hit by a Soviet hydrogen bomb. "It would not eliminate the Potomac River," says Beach, "but it would sure raise hell and dig a deep hole where Washington had been. We would have a deep lake there, so shelters in Washington would have been counterproductive. Even if you survived the blast, you'd probably drown." So Beach and others pressed their imaginations for alternate escape plans...
Where does all this leave Bush? In a deep hole. After the 1988 campaign, then G.O.P. chairman Lee Atwater said, "The ticket of admission to play in the ((general election)) game with a chance to win meant we had to hold Dukakis' lead to under 10 points at the time our own convention began. Anything worse, and we'd likely lose." By this standard, Bush is flirting with disaster; the latest polls have Clinton ahead by at least 20 points. "At the rate we're going we may end up having to do the McGovern spot," says a Republican consultant...