Word: horizons
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...this case, matter from the normal star approaches a so-called "event horizon" that surrounds the black hole. Instead of causing a bright explosion, the matter gets devoured by the black hole. Once something crosses the horizon nothing can escape--not even light...
...Charlie Parker, the man who turned jazz inside out as if he'd just pulled it through the sleeve of his coat, listening. Entranced. A bystander asks Bird to explain what he's doing paying such close attention to music that is so beyond--no, beneath--the jazz horizon. Parker has an easy answer. "Listen to the stories," he says, and keeps on listening...
...Horizon: Two U.S.-trained Colombian battalions are scheduled to launch a major offensive into guerrilla-held territory in January. The U.S. is due to release further installments of its aid package shortly before Clinton leaves office, for which the President will probably once again waive the usual requirement that Colombia show progress on human rights issues. Negotiations between the government and the rebels are going nowhere, and there's a growing sentiment in Colombian politics to stop negotiations and seek a return of the one-third of the country they've handed over to the guerillas in earlier deals. That...
...Horizon: Increased tension over Kosovo?s future, and a major showdown between Washington and its European allies over proposals to withdraw U.S. forces from Balkans peacekeeping. The Europeans have warned that the U.S. will cede its right to command NATO forces in Europe if it refuses to have its troops on the frontline...
...Horizon: The new administration will have to decide on whether to make a deal offering satellite launches in exchange for North Korea shutting down its missile program, as well as whether to continue the Clinton administration program to provide extensive energy and food assistance to the North Koreans in exchange for them shutting down their weapons-grade ore nuclear power plants - and if so, to sell a skeptical Congress on the idea...