Word: objectional
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Sudoku is a number game based on a nine-by-nine grid. The object of the puzzle is to fill each column, row, and three-by-three square using the numbers one through nine only once...
...July, Brown, an astronomer at Caltech, made an announcement that took the debate to a whole new plane. Along with his colleague Chad Trujillo, Brown had found something very much like Pluto, only bigger, and last month he declared that the object known officially as 2003 UB313--and temporarily nicknamed Xena--has its own little moon. Suddenly, the question Tyson had raised to make a provocative educational point became something much larger: if Pluto is a planet, then Brown's new object must be one as well...
...another idea, favored by Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., would open the door even wider. By his definition, any object massive enough for gravity to squeeze into a spherical shape is a planet--unless the object orbits a bigger planet, of course. Otherwise, dozens of moons would have to be reclassified as planets. "Defining planets by size is purely arbitrary," agrees Marsden, who likes Stern's idea. "The Pluto-crats want to cut things off there, but it's absurd to say that an object 2,000 km across is a planet...
...Okay, so I might be exaggerating a tad. Most certainly someone who was zombified on a healthy diet of Saturday-morning infomercials, not cartoons, isn’t ready to condemn innovative and interesting advertising. It’s not the consumerism I object to; it’s the inherent unnatural quality of the aggressive campaign...
...discuss his most recent book, “The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family,” at the Brattle Theatre tomorrow at 5 p.m. In the book, Savage examines his decision to marry Terry, his longtime “partner.” (Savage would likely object to that description: “partner,” he once wrote, is a word used by “straight people and press organs that want to acknowledge gay relationships while at the same time pushing the two-penises stuff as far out of their minds as possible...