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Heirlooms, though, can also realign the remaining family. "In some cases, siblings rearrange the hierarchy of the family around the object," says Levy. "Whoever got the dining room set becomes the host for family dinners." Whether dinners or other family rituals will carry on, though, is up to the surviving children. "I think my parents were the mortar between the bricks as far as the family goes," says Paul Kane, 39. Seven years ago, he and his three siblings lost both parents within six months of each other. "After they died, we, as individuals, had to make more effort...
...core as the nearest star, Proxima Centauri, lies to the sun, and he finds that they're whipping around the galactic center at 1,600 miles per second, nearly 100 times as fast as Earth orbits the sun. It only takes high school physics to calculate that the object they're orbiting is as massive as 3 million suns yet packed into an area no bigger than the orbit of Mars...
...only thing that reasonably fits this description is a black hole, an object whose gravity is so strong even light can't escape from it. "We have evidence of these supermassive black holes in several other galaxies," says Ghez, "but this is the most convincing case we know...
...Gore could open are ones "certified" by the governor. (This is different from state officials certifying the election.) If the governor certifies the Bush-Cheney electors and the Gore-Lieberman electors send in a rival ballot, it's ignored. The only exception here is if the Senate and House object to having the Bush-Cheney electoral votes counted. As for Gore, his role under the Constitution and federal statute is pretty much just reading the ballots or breaking a tie in the Senate over the vice president. But the Senate and House, concurrently, can make objections to electoral slates...
Basically, I like her style. You'd think that by now I'd be immune to the charms of an inanimate object, but I find Audrey's fluted form hard to resist...