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...More activity recorded in the brain of people with an Alzheimer's-related gene while doing memory tests, even years before they show outward signs of the disease...
Hard as it is for Earthlings to imagine, astronomers have known for some time that the universe is expanding. They've never been able to figure out, though, whether it will balloon outward forever or slow under the combined gravity of its 100 billion galaxies, stop and fall back in on itself. Thanks in large part to Adam Riess, they're a lot closer to an answer--and it's not what they expected...
...despite the outward show of unity this spring, Christian students have found it difficult to reach agreement on sensitive subjects like homosexuality and race. This year marked a renewed effort among Christian groups to close ranks...
...royalty-golden bustier, jeweled headpiece and a robe that literally descends from the rafters. Suarez's majesty is partially due to her elevated status, as she spends a large part of the ballet literally above the other dancers on a variety of elaborately constructed thrones. But despite the outward trappings of royalty and Suarez's apparent effort, her performance lacks the conviction necessary to make one believe that she really is the Queen of the Nile...
Near the beginning of Walden, Thoreau writes that "it would be some advantage to live in a primitive and frontier life, though in the midst of an outward civilization, if only to learn what are the gross necessaries of life and what methods have been taken to obtain them." The irony, of course, is that now we would say even the most "civilized" mid-nineteenth-century American lived a life far more primitive than any imaginable today. No Coca-Cola (nor plastic bottle in which to hold it); no Gore-Tex jacket (nor zipper with which close it); no Chevy...