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...Previously, nobody had found any stars in the dwarf galaxies that looked very much like the most metal-poor stars in the Milky Way halo,” said Joshua D. Simon, a researcher at the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and one of the study’s authors. “It was reasonable to wonder if maybe they didn’t exist...
...then offered the coordinates of this star to Frebel, who departed for Chile to take a closer look with the Magellen-Clay Telescope using high-resolution spectroscopy. Though this kind of spectroscopy takes much longer, it provides more details about the “personality” of the star, Frebel said...
...site, Hardwick said, would alleviate much of the frustration that many student groups previously faced...
...matter all that much. Thursday's changes are likely to lead to far fewer soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines being drummed out of the service for being gay or lesbian. Gates sent a clear signal that such cases should only be brought "in exceptional or extraordinary circumstances," says Aubrey Sarvis, executive director of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, a nonprofit group trying to end the anti-gay policy. "The White House and Pentagon have gone a long ways toward reducing discharges...
...Granted, this time around the agitator is the much more media-friendly Republican Senator from Oklahoma, Tom Coburn, who - unlike Bunning - is not known for flipping off reporters. Before the Senate adjourns for a two-week Easter recess on Friday, Democrats are hoping to pass another one-month extension of benefits - the yearlong extension has been held up as differences are worked out with the House - to tide over the unemployed until lawmakers can pass a more permanent solution. Coburn's objection is the same as Bunning's: that Democrats are not paying for the $10 billion bill. "I think...