Word: meteoric
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...Like a meteor flashing across the night sky, an intellect as brilliant as Einstein's reminds us that the essence of humanity lies in reveling in the beauty and mystery of the universe. ROBERT J. FARINA Richmond, Calif...
...teaching, Yates is worried about going stale. Before school started, he trashed much of the material he had gathered over the years. He makes himself do the same homework he assigns his students. At least two or three times a semester, he invites his astronomy classes to watch meteor showers, or to count planets or, like tonight, to see the moon rise...
...nine months after an idyllic interlude at Lake Como, Albert's classmate--and future wife--Mileva Maric secretly gave birth to a girl at her parents' home back in Serbia. Neither Mileva nor Albert ever talked about her, even to close friends. Like some brief, fiery meteor, the baby named Lieserl (diminutive for Elisabeth) soon vanished into the Balkan night...
...soon as they can take a sip. The meteor plopped down in a West Texas backyard in March 1998 ?- and it?s taken more than a year for the scientists to report their findings in the journal Science. But the wait is hardly over. The bubbles of brine, trapped in crystals of irradiated halite (essentially table salt from space turned blue by radiation), are so small ?- about an eighth or a tenth the diameter of a human hair ?- that they lie beyond the capability of existing technology. Never fear; a researcher in Cambridge, England, is apparently on the verge...
Following his small dramatic roles as Steve Rubell in the unsuccessful film 54 and as a repentant drug dealer in the unreleased Pete's Meteor, Myers felt ready to have another go at Austin. Several prequel ideas were tossed about. In one, young Powers and Evil were classmates fighting over the same woman. Roach, returning to direct, suggested making Dr. Evil a square cold-war agent, with Austin "single-handedly creating the British invasion to mess with his head." But Myers and co-screenwriter, Michael McCullers, a former writer for SNL, decided on a plot that had Austin revisit...