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...between the constellations Cygnus and Lyra. Scientists have narrowed their estimate of the mass of GJ 758 B to only about 10 to 40 times the mass of Jupiter. If it were more than 13 Jupiter masses, it would probably be considered a brown dwarf, which is a kind of failed star. "We're calling it a planet-like object rather than a planet," says Michael McElwain, a postdoctoral student at Princeton who co-authored the discovery paper for Astrophysical Journal Letters published in November. (See the 50 best inventions...
...sake of argument the small subset of women for whom the Stupak amendment would make abortions prohibitively expensive. The claim that this fact deprives them of their “right to choose” merits further inspection. First, it implies that abortion is the kind of thing that women not only have a right to obtain, but also that they have a right to obtain regardless of whether they can pay for it. To illustrate the difference, this argument likens abortion to the right to an attorney; if you cannot afford...
...coaches want me to bring a lot of energy, so we ran our play and we executed pretty well,” Casey said. “It kind of sparked us and got us going...
...history of the quartet goes back to 1993, when Beaver and Fischer, then high school students, attended the Musicorda chamber music festival at Mt. Holyoke College. But their separate college careers made it impossible for them to convene on a consistent basis. “It was kind of a pipe dream for a while,” Sirota says...
...course, given how little money Democrats have left to play with, any kind of second stimulus would have to provide a big bang for the buck. House and Senate leaders are looking at combining extensions of unemployment insurance, food stamps and health insurance for recently laid off workers (known as COBRA) with infrastructure investments and money for clean-energy projects. The Obama Administration has resurrected a proposal the President campaigned on: a $3,000 tax credit per new hire for small businesses, an idea that was dropped from the first stimulus because it would've been too easy for employers...