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...side--where the sun looks three times as big as it does from Earth and is 11 times as bright--temperatures climb to 840°F. When that side rotates into darkness, the thermometer plunges to --300°F. Eons of this rotisserie roll have cooked Mercury down to a nub with a metal core that represents three-quarters of its diameter. Yet there may be water ice in permanently shadowed polar craters...
...While Dioguardi stacks the papers coming off the folding machine, Byrne ties them together. Left untouched for now on the side of the table is Byrne’s coffee and cigar nub...
...think the most important element of it was a feeling that I had missed teaching and research and being at Harvard,” Rogoff said. “That’s really the nub...
...nub of each film is the chase--the simplest story line requiring the most sophisticated art craft. But instead of asking Jerry Bruckheimer for some car-crash outtakes, Fincher lured a U.N. of directorial talent: Hollywood's John Frankenheimer (Reindeer Games), Taiwan's Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), Hong Kong's Wong Kar-wai (In the Mood for Love), Britain's Guy Ritchie (Snatch) and Mexico's Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Amores Perros). Frankenheimer's short, Ambush, premiered last week on bmwfilms.com The next two, Lee's and Wong's, will appear...
...morning at the nub end of Bill Clinton's presidency, Clinton chief of staff John Podesta walked into a senior staff meeting in the Roosevelt Room waving a copy of USA Today. Holding the paper aloft, Podesta read the headline out loud, "Clinton actions annoy Bush." The article detailed the new rules and Executive Orders the outgoing President was issuing in his final days, actions aimed in equal measure at locking in Clinton's legacy (in areas like environmental protection) and bedeviling his successor. "What's Bush so annoyed about?" Podesta asked with a devilish smile. "He's got four...