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...shining perhaps a million times brighter than the sun and generating a wind of particles that pushes the surrounding gases outward, keeping them from collapsing on their own to form new stars. The very first galaxies in the young universe may well have been microgalaxies, as theorist Mike Norman of the University of California at San Diego calls them: each one a single, huge, superhot star, surrounded by a halo of hydrogen...
...filled with second-generation stars were by far the dominant type in the early cosmos. It would also have been safe to assume that nobody could spot them in their earliest incarnation without giant new telescopes--if not for Ellis. "He does like to push the frontiers," says theorist Norman with mixed amusement and respect. "It's always great fun to go to a meeting and see the latest Ellis most-distant-object sweepstakes entry...
During a four-hour flight delay at London's Heathrow Airport two years ago, Norman Crowley battled boredom by putting his business acumen to use. Crowley is co- ceo of Inspired Gaming Group, a company whose software transforms analogue machines into digital ones. He and several coworkers found themselves staring at a Coke machine that attracted one [an error occurred while processing this directive] customer every 20 minutes. "We thought, this is crazy," it could be doing so much more. Crowley called an old friend, Clyde Pereira, the chief information officer at Coca-Cola HBC, the company's European distributor...
...Yiyili for nine years. Although many first-year graduates have passed this way on an adventure, several experienced teachers have made long-term commitments to the school of 60 students. The word is that Boyle's longevity, persistence and calm temperament-together with the leadership of board chairman Norman Cox-explain much of the school's success. Boyle, who witnessed a long, slow decline, senses that things may have turned around for indigenous people. "Local knowledge is so important," he says. "If you can get the right people on the ground to work with elders and the community's board...
...spot, the week to itself, rather than sharing the primary day with more than a half-dozen other states, as it did in 2004. That's not convincing many. "South Carolina had become the make-or-break place for people who had survived the first hurdles," says Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute. "So anything that gets inserted in between is not good news...