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Dressed in worn sneakers, pants and a multicolored, shortsleeve shirt with a mini-microphone attached just below the neck, Chandler surveyed his section of nearly 50, well above Faculty of Arts and Sciences guidelines...
...same time, Burns is a pragmatic producer of TV documentaries who knows the strike will most likely only add to the interest in Baseball, his eagerly awaited nine-part history of the national pastime. More than four years in the making, Burns' first mini-series since The Civil War (which set all-time viewing records when it was broadcast on pbs in September 1990) was carefully scheduled so that it would air in the sweet spot of the baseball season: on consecutive nights (with a two-day weekend break) starting Sept. 18, just as pennant fever was heating...
...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 it. But since they have found one, they might find others. And that could give them plenty of clues to help solve cosmic riddles...
...meal, make love or even take a walk in the woods without a bit of fear in the back of the mind. No wonder people pay an unreasonable amount of attention when tabloids trumpet headlines about "flesh-eating bacteria." And no wonder Stephen King's The Stand, a TV mini-series based on his novel about a "superflu" that ravages the world's population, earned some of the year's highest ratings...
...closed-door talks between U.S. and Cuban negotiators ended today, amid indications that a sliver of middle ground on the refugee crisis could emerge by week's end. Chief Cuban delegate Ricardo Alarcon left New York for Havana after an hourlong mini-summit this morning with Michael Skol, the U.S. representative. Alarcon, who plans to consult with higher-ups at home, said he would return "in a few days." U.S. officials, who have offered to accept 20,000 Cubans in return for a halt to the boatlift, suggested they were disappointed with a new Cuban counterproposal. TIME State Department correspondent...